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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
I think the scary thing is that they have taken into account downstream effects...
But they have no intention of accounting for this in their rebates. The $200 bucks poor people get is only for gas and heat plus $9 bucks. And how laughable is assuming business will pass on 50% of the cost to their consumers? Awesome business model there...gross profit - 50% of costs = net loss.
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Honestly man...those rebates are a joke. The only reason they're in there is so that the NDP dont expend Political Capital by being accused of instituting a policy that punishes everyone including low-income families.
It will punish everyone....except low-income families because they'll be eligible for some nebulous rebate concept.
Lets be honest, nobody knows how those rebates work and damned near no one is going to either qualify or collect them. They're just something that can be pointed at when they're accused of not looking out for low income families.
Its a deflecting point. Its true, there technically are rebates. And thats about it.
The fact of the matter remains that if, and thats a Texas-Sized 'if,' the impact is as low as is being claimed then the rebates will likely barely be necessary.
And 'if' the downstream effects raise the costs of everything then those minuscule rebates are going to be too little and the process of getting them will make them too late.
But their existence sure sounds nice when Rachel steps up to the podium.