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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Wait... What? I'm pretty sure you mean a credit. A tax deduction is about a 30% subsidy and is worth more in real dollars the higher your marginal rate is (i.e. it's worth more to high income taxpayers). You seem to want the whole bill sent to the provincial government, if I'm understanding you right.
...Which as I'm typing this I'm getting less and less certain because that would of course be totally insane and a deduction would make far more sense from a policy perspective. But I guess that would still mostly be "putting our money where their mouths are".
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If the goal of the carbon tax was to introduce long term sustainable choices and increases in efficiency and not just wealth transfer and raising general revenues, they would be implementing a system of incentives to switch.
No one is going to spend $5k-$8k on a high efficiency furnace upgrade to save a few hundred every year, same goes for windows and doors. What will happen is that people will cut down spending on discretionary items, further hurting businesses that are being hit by higher costs at the same time.