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Originally Posted by Methanolic
Carbon sounds bad and dirty.
Carbon dioxide doesn't sound bad at all, after all, it is essential to life on earth.
This is a "Carbon Dioxide" tax. That just sounds silly, lose the word dioxide and we've got a winner.
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Everyone should know this is a carbon dioxide tax if they read more than the title. CO2 is essential, but releasing too much into the atmosphere is a bad thing.
The NDP aren't banking on people not knowing they're talking about carbon dioxide. Carbon is also an essential part of life. I don't know how one sounds dirtier than the other.
Governments use the term "carbon" because scientist studying the carbon cycle typically do. It's not to pull the wool over.