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Originally Posted by Fuzz
I "wine" about the carbon tax because it is totally misguided. It shouldn't even be in the budget. If you are going to do it, you announce it as a esperate item, and direct funds to things that will make a difference, like an LRT for Calgary, and a research centre of excellence for energy efficiency in one of our Universities. Give a baseline allowance per household, so you are not punishing people for staying warm. Anything over that threshold gets taxed. There are hundreds of ways this could have been handled better. Make it meaningful, not a budgetary cash grab.
It should have been a PST, like all the economists have been saying for years.
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Those same economists that you speak of are also calling for income tax and corporate tax reductions or eliminating them all together.