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Originally Posted by MattyC
Yeah, even for someone as socialist as me, the carbon tax is just plain stupid.
It's not even really a socialist policy. It's just another charge on people for something that has no discernable affect on the actual problem.
Climate change is a problem. Just charging people for using carbon isn't changing that. People are still using it because they have to. It's ridiculous. It's not incentivizing anything because there's no alternative present. Put up some ethanol gas stations funded by the carbon tax, then maybe you're doing something. Throwing money at what is a physical problem makes no sense.
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Its much more socialist though; its pure wealth distribution and has basically nothing environmental to it. That's why people are upset about it, because really everyone is an environmentalist to some degree. The fact that we'll all pay more to turn on the furnace in a northern climate though isn't caring about the environment so much as its taking money from some people and giving credits to others. When the government comes out and explains that a majority of the population is going to get a credit for more than they're impacted its socialism plain and simple. I'm surprised that you're not in favour actually!
