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Originally Posted by old-fart
Perhaps... but that's not in their 4 year plan. If the plan is to look at emission levels and then increase the tax appropriately so we have the appropriate revenue to meet the spending demands, the plan should say that. It doesn't. It says in year 4 the tax will be this much, we'll raise this much money, and we'll spend all that money like so. If emissions do go down, all that changes... doesn't it? Either the carbon tax has to increase, other taxes have to increase, services and/or programs need to be reduced, or a deficit has to occur. The plan makes no mention of any of these obvious options.
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If emissions go down so much that the there aren't enough to be taxed on at $40/tonne in 4 years time to provide sufficent revenue then either:
(a) the emission books are being cooked
(b) the problem is solved