[CaptainCrunch]

Its not as easy to say that people will or can change due to the carbon tax, telling people to buy new cars, or move closer to work, or change their electricity is fine for people that can afford to do it. But the lower and lower to middle class can't go out and buy a shiny new car with better ecological design, they can't necessarily afford to sell their house, or pay a new damage deposit to move closer to work.

The one thing that continually strikes me with this is the ripple through all of the corporate sectors. Anyone who gets taxed is not simply going absorb the tax, they're going to pass it on to the producers, and even if they do get the tax break at the end of the year, they're still going to want to cover their up front costs. And its going to ripple right through like a pyramid. Energy producers are going to increase their prices, then the manufacturers or food producers or anyone that uses power are going to increase their prices, plus they're going to get taxed as well, and they're going to pass it on to the producers.

Plus Dion announced yesterday that foreign owned companies or investors are going to bear the brunt of the costs as well, so they're not going to invest in Canada because its cheaper to invest in China or India or anywhere else.

Plus you know that the Liberals are going to create carbon exemptions for companies in Ontario and Quebec because they don't want to lose jobs in voter rich areas so the Energy sector out here is going to be taxed.

Again if you want to make these green shift changes, then you do it without it being punative. You give incentives for people who normally buy used cars because they can buy new cars to buy those new cars. You give tax breaks without taxation to organizations that go green, you give tax breaks to home builders who go green. You encourage univesities to create courses based around these so called green collar jobs so that these students enter the job market and can pay taxes based around a green economy.

But Dion's system which has no real targets or incentive to change since their nothing stopping these companies from charging more to recover the tax to me is merely a taxation shift to buy votes elsewhere in the country, while at the same time butchering the golden goose in the provinces in Canada that are already paying equalization to the other provinces.