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Old 08-08-2015, 05:51 PM   #521
carbonrod
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Originally Posted by ae118 View Post
Lowering the GST was vote pandering and reducing perfectly good revenue.
How is yet another tax 'perfectly good revenue'?

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Originally Posted by killer_carlson View Post
i'm waiting for the NDP or the Liberals to talk about a carbon tax but that the money taken in carbon tax in each province will stay in that province to fund green infrastructure such as LRT, wind farms, solar farms, etc.

Unless this isn't about the environment and is more about transferring wealth...
Sadly, of course the libs and NDP will simply use a carbon tax as yet another revenue stream for the government to mishandle. Much like equalization payments, carbon tax revenue will be transferred into a holding bucket administered out east, and the other provinces will never see it.
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