Someone will have to ’splain this one to me…
How on EARTH does imposing a carbon tax on things joe average uses is going to help our environment at all…without putting us all out on the streets.
I fail to understand how increasing the cost of heating my home or running my business or driving my car is going to do anything to help with pollution.
Is the tax going towards environmental efforts? Not that I can see. The Finance Minister has stated that this is a ‘neutral’ tax…meaning we are supposed to get a break elsewhere.
If she means the big $100 payout…I do hope she is joking. $100 will not buy us a better furnace for our home, or solar panels, or a hybrid vehicle. It won’t put more buses on the streets.
This tax will do nothing but push up prices. The price of everything. The price of living.
Our food will cost more.
So who or what does this tax help?
Really. Explain this to me.
2.21.08 at 6:04 am
SmalltownRN comments:
I am not one for taxes and certainly not this one. But I can appreciate that the government wants to make it look like it truly wants to do something about our environment. I don’t expect the big corporations to always have to pick up the tab either.
But how do we get the average joe pulbic to become more environmentally friendly? By taxing us more? I don’t think so. I truly would love to have solar panel heating, or better yet wind,I wouldn’t mind driving one of those funny looking hybrids if they were in my price range and the fact that I feel terrified about getting scrunched if I came in contact with anything bigger than a VW bettle. I compost, I recycle, I grow my own herbs and soon will have my own vegetable garden.
Someone answer me this…why is it so expensive to do the environmentally right thing….like shop organic, or using alternate soruces for power and heat, transportation….all the things we need to keep us and the economy going and to save the environment costs us more….so where is the incentive to be environmentally friendly? As it is we get charged for recyling whether it be at the curb or taking it to the dump, I make weekly trips to the bottle depot to return whatever I can there…I really feel like I am trying…so why then should I be taxed yet again….You are right Crunchy…this tax does nothing to encourage me to become more environmentally friendly….
2.21.08 at 7:02 pm
Nicole comments:
Agh. I am working on a post about the budget. I really think the thought process behind it is seriously flawed.
If you want, I can cross-post it here.
2.24.08 at 11:29 pm
Mrs. Flinger comments:
Thats’ it. Marry me. Dayam. We think alike.