I believe it’s good for our wallets as it takes from high users and gives to low but as for being good for the climate I’ll have to disagree there.
We are a species in overshoot of its environment, that environment just so happens to be the globe as we are everywhere. We will not cut emission with a wealth tax and zero changes to our civilization and the capitalist system which chases forever growth in a finite system.
Call it what it is, a wealth tax.
“We also only get the rebate a few times a year, but are directly confronted by the tax each time we fill our cars or buy fossil fuels in another capacity…”
Instead of the rebates, they should have reduced the GST (for non-Canadians in this thread, it’s a federal sales tax) by a comparable amount. That way, even though people would still be seeing the higher prices for gas daily, they’d also be seeing lower prices for everything else daily.
No I don’t. It will be one more thing to make working people’s lives worse, creating even more climate skeptics. People who are stuck in towns without adequate public transportation will be punished for driving, poor families with the absence of nutritional agriculture planning will be forced to buy more cheap processed goods without meat protein being replaced by cheap plant protein on the shelves, etc etc. In comparison super rich will pay prices relatively super low to their contribution to the problem.
Ban luxury emissions such as private jets and cruise ships, offer people affordable alternatives to carbon-heavy lifestyles they were forced into with correct infrastructure investments, and then you can institute the tax to further curtail choice-based emissions. But right now a non-progressive carbon tax is just one more punitive expense for people the least guilty for climate change.
“I bought some “”Stabby tax credits”” off another company so I can stab people in peace”
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I believe it’s good for our wallets as it takes from high users and gives to low but as for being good for the climate I’ll have to disagree there.
We are a species in overshoot of its environment, that environment just so happens to be the globe as we are everywhere. We will not cut emission with a wealth tax and zero changes to our civilization and the capitalist system which chases forever growth in a finite system.
Call it what it is, a wealth tax.
“We also only get the rebate a few times a year, but are directly confronted by the tax each time we fill our cars or buy fossil fuels in another capacity…”
Instead of the rebates, they should have reduced the GST (for non-Canadians in this thread, it’s a federal sales tax) by a comparable amount. That way, even though people would still be seeing the higher prices for gas daily, they’d also be seeing lower prices for everything else daily.
No I don’t. It will be one more thing to make working people’s lives worse, creating even more climate skeptics. People who are stuck in towns without adequate public transportation will be punished for driving, poor families with the absence of nutritional agriculture planning will be forced to buy more cheap processed goods without meat protein being replaced by cheap plant protein on the shelves, etc etc. In comparison super rich will pay prices relatively super low to their contribution to the problem.
Ban luxury emissions such as private jets and cruise ships, offer people affordable alternatives to carbon-heavy lifestyles they were forced into with correct infrastructure investments, and then you can institute the tax to further curtail choice-based emissions. But right now a non-progressive carbon tax is just one more punitive expense for people the least guilty for climate change.
“I bought some “”Stabby tax credits”” off another company so I can stab people in peace”