I figured it out.
Carbon tax is not designed to actually limit carbon pollution, just who gets to pollute. The cascading effect of the tax is designed to significantly raise the overall cost of every product and service purchased, thereby reducing family’s disposable income. That’s how it is designed to cut carbon, by cutting our disposable income so we can’t afford to drive as much.
It’s an oppression tax, primarily targeting the poor and less affluent who will not have enough extra income/asset to absorb the increased cost of living and will then have to reduce/eliminate driving. Tourism, travel, recreation would be the first to be extracted from our budgets (and the economy). As the tax is progressively increased over subsequent years even budgets for necessities of living would have to be reduced or eliminated.
With carbon tax, as long as you can pay to pollute there will be no consequences or limits imposed to do so. So, the well off will not have to reduce their pollution practices because they can afford to keep on doing it.
Keep in mind, Canadians are not the cause of carbon climate change. Canada’s forests alone can absorb 5 times the amount of Carbon produced in Canada. Our population and environmental standards are well in balance with nature so we should not be penalized by our own government because other countries are not. They’re the ones creating the problem, let them pay it.
Eg. Canada 600 million tons carbon annually vs China at 10.5 BILLION (and they don’t have carbon tax)
Paul Dunnill
Paul Dunnill