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Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14
I've had an idea to expand on the carbon tax and to make it beneficial to Alberta, but I'm no politician.
Set up carbon checkstops at one of our borders to see if this idea will work (say... BC first and go from there). If the vehicle has departed from BC, is registered to a BC address and cannot prove they have paid into AB's carbon tax through a gas receipt, they should be slapped with a levy.
Why should Albertans tax only themselves when we are allowing other provinces (especially holier than thou BC) to damage our environment tax free? If BC wants to use our roads and emit carbon on Albertan land they should have to pay to do so.
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I've talked about that before.
But there are a couple of problems, I'm pretty sure that BC would probably sue us because it limits cross border transport of goods.
Also if you did that you would have to apply that for everything and as it stands currently imports are carbon tax exempt, we've pretty much hurt the competitive balance of local products.
Third of all, it would be tremendously expensive because you'd have to put inspection points at every road.