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Originally Posted by Fuzz
But isn't that what regulations are for? So now we are micro-managing the stuff they don't want to use their own profits for, so we "tax" them and then give it back to them to use to cleanup their own mess?
"Left wing versions" would have carbon taxes go to things like transit and consumer efficiency rebates and the like. Right wing versions give the money back to the polluters.
Kind of funny the very next post is for the province to handle it's own environmental reviews. Why not, they are so good at holding companies to account now. What could go wrong?
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Consumer efficiency rebates is effectively giving money back to the polluter to reduce their pollution. Thats what in general TIER does.
The light bulb program is no different, energy efficient buses are no different. It gives money to polluters to invest in infrastructure to pollute less. Whether it’s a private sector polluter, a government polluter or an individual polluter doesn’t really matter when the target is $/kiloton removed.
I’ve always been team just tax and the problem solves itself but when you are on team consumer efficiency rebates and spending carbon taxes on programs you shouldn’t get upset when that model is used in a sector you don’t particularly like.