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Originally Posted by 4X4
The recent structure of the carbon tax is so GD unfair, though. You're slapping a huge tax on guys like Joe Electrician that have no choice but to drive to site every day. They need their tools and supplies. No matter whether they're driving to the suburbs or to a fancy new condo building downtown, whatever they're helping to build, they need to get to site.
Why should their costs suddenly increase substantially just so some people can feel good about switching to the Ctrain to get to work in their downtown office building? It's BS.
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Yeah, I agree. The way this tax has been formulated, and rolled out has been very poor. That said, you would expect that cost to get passed down to consumers, right?
The problem is that no one wants to accept that things have to change. There are other things we could do to make it easier on guys like Joe Electrician, like congestion pricing, but most people would never stand for that either.
EDIT: BC used to have a revenue neutral carbon tax - which is the only way that I see it working. Why not let small business owners/tradespeople/consultants write off fuel as a business expense?