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Originally Posted by Locke
Businesses are fully capable of providing breakdowns of their costs to the public? Really? How do you figure that?
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I figure that because the fact is they are capable of it(see your next paragraph) they simply aren't obligated to do it. I hope you're at least willing to acknowledge that much.
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First of all, those breakdowns arent free. Have you ever had to do a Professional Cost-Breakdown? Its hard. Its very complex. Where do you attribute certain aspects of overhead, how do you account for rent increases. They have to be audited, and then they have to be distributed and then...it goes on and on.
All so businesses can spread Government Propaganda? Whats in it for them?
Especially considering the Carbon tax is about as fluid and ethereal as it gets. The people instituting it have no idea as to its effects. Its supposed to cost the wealthiest Albertans a maximum of...well, thats been a bit of a moving target as of late, whats it at now? $480/year?
But again, that doesnt take into account any of the downstream Economic effects that, according to our Fearless Leaders, dont exist.
Face facts, this tax is a boondoggled debacle of epic proportions.
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How are businesses coming up with their cost increases if it is so complicated to figure out? We will likely never agree philosophically on a number of things related to this, but I can't really understand why people only care about price increases when they can point their finger at the government for it. There have been a number of announced increases by companies to cover their addedd costs, but while everyone is so up in arms about the increase, they don't question how that company came up with their numbers. It's made even more interesting since many on here have been beating the drum that we can't possibly predict how much this will cost.
If a product or service goes up a dollar in price and that company blames it on the carbon tax, how do we as consumers know if that increase needed to be that much? If that increase only needed to be $0.25-$0.50 to maintain their bottom line and the rest is being added by choice because that company feels it will still be a competitive enough price for their business and they can simply tell consumers it's because of the carbon tax, is it really all on the carbon tax? It's their right to charge what they want to charge, but the fact that consumers aren't given all the data on both sides will always leave questions as to the legitimacy of how much businesses claim these types of taxes will affect our prices.
This isn't about propaganda, it's about transparency, wouldn't you prefer to know exactly how much this is going to cause prices to go up, if it's as bad as some have feared then it would help make a case to repeal it, and to fight the Feds on their plan for it. If it's effect is really not as drastic as people have feared, then I guess everyone who's panicking would be spared their anxiety? What's the downside to knowing as much about the increases as possible?