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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
She's a complete and utter idiot, considering that there have been studies that place it at more like $1000.00 for consumer goods.
But since there won't be a separate line item at the grocery store for Carbon Tax of course she's and her politburo are going to blame it on those evil corporations and their gouging.
If an average family spends $100.00 a week on groceries and there's a 4% boost or $5.00 per week or $20.00 a month that's $240.00 per year just for groceries, and I'm betting with the global impact of a carbon tax it will probably more like 10% per week or $480.00 a year. And that's just groceries.
If a family spends lets say spends $500.00 a month a various things for their family outside of food (trips out etc) and the increased cost to them is 5 to 10% because of this tax lets add another $300 to $600 in cost increases on top of the groceries and then you take on the utilities increases and gas for fueling your car.
Then on top of that because the city isn't rebated all of your kids activity costs goes up and your property taxes go up.
Its not going to take long to see an additional $1000 or more leaving your families pocket which means you'd better pray for a $2000.00 or more raise this year in your income.
Good luck to the people that have lost their jobs already and are on benefits or the seniors on a fixed pension. But frack em right? Let em eat dog food.
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Dude, your math is horrible.
I'm not particularly in favour of the carbon tax, but if you're going to try to use math to argue against it, at least try to get your math correct.
You're assuming everything goes up 5-10% which is ridiculous.
Gasoline, which is an example of something that the the tax directly affects is only going up ~5%. That's a direct energy product, not a consumer product that has other inputs (materials, labour, etc).
So your math of a 5-10% increase in costs for everything is assuming that the energy cost (manufacturing, transportation etc), makes up 100-200% of the cost of the products. Do you see why that doesn't make sense.
There's a lot wrong with this tax and how it is being implemented, and it will certainly have an impact on the cost of everything, but there's no need to pull obviously incorrect numbers out of thin air and hold them up as a battle cry.