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Originally Posted by CroFlames
If I were a business, why would it be my responsibility to make sure consumers/citizens are well off? A business is not a human being. It's there to employ people and to make money for the owner(s).
Since businesses are there to make money, of course they will pass along every increase they can, and then some, if the market can bear it. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. It's the government's job to make sure business aren't operating in monopoly fashion or abusing workers.
Lastly, why would a business freely give away their cost breakdowns for all their competitors to see? That is a ridiculous notion. Unless its a publicly traded company, they have no obligation to share anything. Nor should they.
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Which is why people making all the claims of how bad this will impact the economy will sadly have no way of ever making an accurate credible argument to support their view, other than to say it will cost more and the uncertainty may cause investors to be cautious. Even in a years time, there will be no way of directly linking any exact cost increases passed along to consumers as a direct result of the carbon tax, the only direct links that could be calculated will be on the actual commodities directly affected that we are purchasing ourselves. We will not be able to determine how many businesses would or wouldn't have invested or how many jobs would have or wouldn't have been created if this tax wasn't introduced. We simply don't have the data. Businesses don't have to give us this data, that's within their right, and because of their choice to keep it to themselves, people shouldnt foolishly accept that every increase in price we see after January 1st is directly linked to the carbon tax.