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Originally Posted by flamefan74
Let's face it, Dion would be dumb to announce a carbon tax on gas. He would lose votes left, right and center.
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And yet, if Dion's plan actually was about "changing behaviours", increasing gasoline taxes would be exactly what he would do. Afterall, isn't that the entire point of the Green Shaft? To make it more expensive to pollute?
The plan's real purpose is to buy votes by paying lip service to environmentalism, while acting as a means to fund Liberal pet projects. They are hoping that we'll be so happy to see them handing us money with their left hand that we wont notice them stealing that same money from our wallets with their right.
Nothing but smoke and mirrors. Both as environmental policy and economic policy.