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Originally Posted by Firebot
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You can hope voters grow a brain and probably lose an election, or you can give them what they want and have a chance at winning one.
The carbon tax was brought in for BC in 2008 under a centre-right government and they won a majority the next year. No one seemed to have an issue with it for 1.5 decades as it helped curb the growth in emissions in BC without impacting economic growth, all while funding tax cuts for everyone. But now one side of the political spectrum has made a point of riling people up by blaming everyone's problems on a carbon tax that adds about 0.1% to the inflation figure and governments have to scramble to adapt.
That's the problem with having to appeal to low-information swing voters who frankly don't have the faintest clue what they're talking about when it comes to policy. But that's the reality of a close election.