Comments about climate change and carbon taxes are arriving almost daily via email.
Here's a cut-n-paste of an anonymous submission from another blog:
on climate change:
“How can we possibly expect to reduce emissions when goods and services do not include the cost of polluting to influence our purchasing decisions?”
Carbon taxes target goods and services which are NOT discretionary.
adjective
- available for use at the discretion of the user."rules are inevitably less flexible than a discretionary policy"
synonyms: optional, noncompulsory, voluntary, at one's discretion, up to the individual, nonmandatory, elective, open to choice; More - denoting or relating to investment funds placed with a broker or manager who has discretion to invest them on the client's behalf."discretionary portfolios"
Ie, people cannot chose(sic) whether or not to heat their house, take the bus to work, buy groceries or put gasoline in their cars.
Carbon taxes target the poor and lower middle classes, by making compulsory purchases unaffordable.
Tax natural gas used to heat houses. Who is going to not heat their house? It is minus 25 degrees in Toronto in the winter. People die of exposure. Your pipes will freeze. You won’t make it through the night. No matter how expensive they make it, you are going to heat your house.
Tax gasoline. Do they expect everyone to walk? Buy $65,000 Teslas? People are still going to drive their cars. Because, they have to. Outside of Toronto, public transit is a joke. In rural areas, you cannot walk because the distances are too far. People are still going to buy and use gasoline. They have to. Try walking 20 kilometers in the summer heat or the winter cold and you will understand why we use cars to get around in rural Ontario.
Carbon taxes raise property taxes (because municipalities have to pay more for their services, so they download that onto property owners). Property owners raise rents, to compensate. Tenants pay more. Once again, the poorest and most vulnerable of our society is targeted by carbon taxation.
Groceries cost more with carbon taxes. You have to transport them to the store using diesel powered trucks (carbon tax) you have to heat and air condition the store (carbon tax) you have to manufacture the goods sold (carbon tax) you have to farm them (carbon tax). Tax on top of tax on top of tax. All loaded onto the poor and lower middle classes, who can’t just decide not to eat anymore and go hungry.
Carbon taxes are not the answer to “climate change” (if such a thing even exists).
If you want to stop people from putting gasoline in their cars, give them an alternative.
If you want to stop people from purchasing groceries which are produced in a high carbon way, then offer them something else.
If you want to stop people from using natural gas to heat their houses, then offer them another option.
Carbon taxation is basically wealthy governments, taking money from the poor, and transferring it to International organisations which have as their purpose “fighting climate change”. These taxes create an elite, funded off the backs of the poor. That is all they are.
And if you ever go to one of these climate change conferences, count the private jets that bring all the trust fund kids to the conference, and count the cars and limos and SUVs that take them to all their destinations during the day. They are the most high carbon emission events on the planet, fully funded off the backs of the poor. And the G20 (etc.) meetings to which all governments send high-level officials and elected folks? Wow!
That is why I cannot stand carbon taxes.
And Andrew Scheer is right.
All they are is a tax on the poor and lower middle classes."
No further comment from me.
Except to admit that I'm probably a member of the lower middle class...
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