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Originally Posted by calgarygeologist
Incentives are nice and I love when the government gives me money but most incentive programs really only help well-to-do people who can afford to do retrofits or purchase electric cars and whatever else. These types of incentive programs are really just an offshoot of trickle down economics where they think that giving breaks to wealthy people will help the environment overall. Taxes from the poor and middle class are just going to subsidize purchases made by people above them financially.
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Yeah, this plan better be more than tax credits. Nothing I hate more than "giving" incentives only to the people who can afford the upfront capital cost. If they can do this properly at the point of sale to reduce costs immediately for all people, I think this can work.
But this kind of plan will be criticized as the government picking winners and losers - which is exactly why conservatives originally argued for the market based carbon tax over direct government intervention.
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