12-19-2016, 10:39 AM
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#5483
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: The Void between Darkness and Light
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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
I realize this is question is asked merely as one of your regular efforts at signalling how superior you and your team are compared to everyone else, but the honest answer is both sides.
You want to sit there and blame the right for overestimating the costs and effects, and if we trust this article that is fair. But at the same time your team is almost certainly underestimating them, and on top of that, are actively promoting the tax as a means to encourage people to change their consumption habits.
So if the reality is instead that most people will experience only a "small" inconvenience - in fact, the CBC article makes it clear some people will actually profit - then it becomes obvious that this tax is not designed to engender changes in consumption. Rather, it is what many in the opposition have argued it to be: PST by another name and a wealth transfer mechanism.
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Probably has nothing to do with this:
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More than 1,000 Calgarians turned out to a rally Sunday demanding the NDP government scrap plans for its incoming carbon tax.
The event, organized by Ezra Levant’s Rebel Media, drew speakers including three federal Conservative leadership candidates, two MLAs and Albertans who have lost their jobs in the oil and gas sector.
The Calgary rally followed a controversial chant that broke out at a similar rally at the Alberta legislature last weekend, when members of the crowd began shouting “lock her up” in reference to Premier Rachel Notley, reminiscent of Donald Trump supporters’ outbursts aimed at Hillary Clinton during the U.S. election race.
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