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Originally Posted by Azure
But, but, but.....don't you get a rebate to cover the extra $1k+ in food prices that the average family will pay in 2023? That is what all the carbon tax believers are telling us.  |
I think attributing the entire cost of the current food increase to the carbon tax is misleading. The government reports on the carbon tax address
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6625612
The above article links to the PBO report and several other studies on economic drag from carbon tax. The PBO report is on the higher side for the impacts of the carbon tax relative to other reports so I think it can be taken as a reasonable source for discussion
Under this report it indicates the net Carbon cost including economic drag which includes lower salaries and numbers of jobs. It puts the full impact for the average Albertan at 2232 with a $170 carbon tax. The Carbom tax increases by $15 next year or 9% of the total. Which would suggest a maximum of $232 of cost increases per household for next years carbon tax. This includes Everything. So we can clearly see that the carbon tax is not what is driving food price increases over the last 2 years.
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