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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
I find it hilarious that you can nail the problem we are all arguing in your own replies without even seeing it.
Honestly, iggy, you seem to believe that this tax will hit the rich the hardest, because they will possibly choose to pay for more efficient things. Except, even as some level of your subconscious realizes, it is the poor and the middle class that will bear the brunt of this. The poor can't afford a single thing you suggest they do. They can only hope that whatever subsidies Notley and Trudeau offer will make up the extra tax burden they face. For the middle class, the choice has pretty much come down to trading a new furnace in exchange for degrading the quality of life for themselves and their children.
The rich, meanwhile, eat the costs with the least difficulty and with the greatest ability to maintain that standard of living that you seem to find so evil.
All praise the progressive cause!
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The funny thing though, is that the rich and ultra rich that can eat this without trouble make up a pretty small slice of the tax payer pie.
Its sounds good in an election campaign when you angrily slam the podium and yell "Cornswarnit, we'll make the rich pay more", and sure they should thats why they pay more taxes percentage wise then the middle class or poor. But as governments are finding out there aren't billions and billions of dollars being mined from the rich and super rich because they make up a fairly small percentage of the population, I think its in the area of 1%.
So then its back to the podium, "Conswarnit, we'll tax everyone" which fine, but when you spend foolishly, or come up with an ill conceived notion that "If you buy a $10,000 dollar furnace and buy a new car, you'll pay a bit less in taxes". At which point the lower and lower middle class start to wonder what dog food tastes like.