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Originally Posted by Doctorfever
Another good one;
Has the carbon tax helped with climate change?
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Originally Posted by timun
Canada's federal pricing? No, because it's not high enough.  |
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Originally Posted by Doctorfever
Seems you are one of the roughly 18% on Canadians that feels this way.
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Just purely on the basis of "does this tax functionally result in its underlying purpose?" I don't think it works. And it seems so do you:
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Originally Posted by Doctorfever
According to the calculator, I make money from the carbon tax. That, in itself should say just how absurd this tax is.
If I profit from the carbon tax, what is the point?
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I also get a bigger rebate—a far bigger rebate—than I pay in carbon taxes. Functionally its intended purpose —to get me to reduce my consumption — isn't working. The rebate more than offsets my consumption, and even if we didn't have a rebate the price still isn't high enough in the first place to affect my consumption decisions.