Posted on Jun 23, 2023
TERRAZZANO: Canadians paying price for Trudeau’s carbon-tax failure
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Thank you my friend and brother-in-Christ LTC (Join to see) for posting the perspective from Torontosun.com commentary author Franko Terrazono [who is federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation]that Canadians paying price for Trudeau’s carbon-tax failure.
Wild Fires, BoC Interest Rates, Budget Delay, By-Election - This Week in Canada w/ Marty Up North
Chinese Interference, Not so Public inquiry, Interest rate hike from the Bank of Canada, the budget delay, Forest Fires, Climate Change, and the Portage-Lisgar By-Election. Marty Up North joins me to give an overview of all these topics. An up to date look at what's happening in Canada.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_Wzv1wDtJI
Background from the link you posted {[torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/terrazzano-canadians-paying-price-for-trudeaus-carbon-tax-failure]}
If at first you don’t succeed — try, try again
That’s a good motto if you want to start a business or make the high school basketball team. But when one tax is doomed to fail, it doesn’t mean the government should try another.
“My competitors to the south of me in the United States do not pay that (carbon) tax, so now my cost goes up and I have no alternative,” Barlow said. “By penalizing me there’s nothing else that I can do, but just be penalized.”
Here’s the first insight we can take from Barlow:
Fuelling up a car with gas, heating homes and businesses with natural gas, drying grain with propane or filling up the big rig with diesel, are necessities for countless Canadians. Instead of escaping the punishment of the carbon tax, many Canadians are forced to cut back elsewhere, like socking less money away for their kid’s university education.
The second insight is that many other countries don’t have a carbon tax.
More than three-quarters of countries don’t have a national carbon tax, according to the World Bank.
The United States, Russia and India account for a quarter of global emissions. None of those countries have a national carbon tax. Good luck selling a carbon tax to Texans.
Canada only accounts for 1.5% of global emissions.
Canada’s share of global emissions is expected to drop because of the “rapid increase in emissions from economically developing and emerging countries, particularly China (+71.7% from 2005 to 2019), India (+71.3%), Brazil (+16.2%) and Indonesia (+37.9%),” according to the government of Canada.
Canadians paying more to fill up their grocery carts or minivans won’t reduce emissions in China.
Or as the Parliamentary Budget Officer put it: “Canada’s own emissions are not large enough to materially impact climate change.”
The carbon tax doesn’t cut emissions. It cuts family budgets.
The carbon tax will cost the average family up to $710 this year even after the rebates, according to the PBO.
Despite the carbon tax’s environmental failings and inflation reaching a 40-year high last year, Trudeau is moving forward with a second carbon tax on July 1.
The second carbon tax is included within fuel regulations and requires producers to reduce the carbon content of their fuels or be forced to purchase credits. The PBO estimates the second carbon tax will increase the price of gas by up to 17¢ per litre by 2030 and cost the average family up to $1,157.
The government’s own analysis shows the second carbon tax will “disproportionately impact lower and middle-income households,” including “single mothers” and “seniors living on fixed incomes.”
There are no rebates with the second carbon tax. And it’s being added on top of the current tax so that by 2030, Trudeau’s two carbon taxes will cost the average family more than $2,000 annually.
No matter how many carbon taxes Trudeau makes Canadians pay, higher gas prices in Canada won’t solve climate change.
It’s time for the feds to recognize reality and stop making life more expensive.
Franco Terrazzano is federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation "
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Wild Fires, BoC Interest Rates, Budget Delay, By-Election - This Week in Canada w/ Marty Up North
Chinese Interference, Not so Public inquiry, Interest rate hike from the Bank of Canada, the budget delay, Forest Fires, Climate Change, and the Portage-Lisgar By-Election. Marty Up North joins me to give an overview of all these topics. An up to date look at what's happening in Canada.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_Wzv1wDtJI
Background from the link you posted {[torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/terrazzano-canadians-paying-price-for-trudeaus-carbon-tax-failure]}
If at first you don’t succeed — try, try again
That’s a good motto if you want to start a business or make the high school basketball team. But when one tax is doomed to fail, it doesn’t mean the government should try another.
“My competitors to the south of me in the United States do not pay that (carbon) tax, so now my cost goes up and I have no alternative,” Barlow said. “By penalizing me there’s nothing else that I can do, but just be penalized.”
Here’s the first insight we can take from Barlow:
Fuelling up a car with gas, heating homes and businesses with natural gas, drying grain with propane or filling up the big rig with diesel, are necessities for countless Canadians. Instead of escaping the punishment of the carbon tax, many Canadians are forced to cut back elsewhere, like socking less money away for their kid’s university education.
The second insight is that many other countries don’t have a carbon tax.
More than three-quarters of countries don’t have a national carbon tax, according to the World Bank.
The United States, Russia and India account for a quarter of global emissions. None of those countries have a national carbon tax. Good luck selling a carbon tax to Texans.
Canada only accounts for 1.5% of global emissions.
Canada’s share of global emissions is expected to drop because of the “rapid increase in emissions from economically developing and emerging countries, particularly China (+71.7% from 2005 to 2019), India (+71.3%), Brazil (+16.2%) and Indonesia (+37.9%),” according to the government of Canada.
Canadians paying more to fill up their grocery carts or minivans won’t reduce emissions in China.
Or as the Parliamentary Budget Officer put it: “Canada’s own emissions are not large enough to materially impact climate change.”
The carbon tax doesn’t cut emissions. It cuts family budgets.
The carbon tax will cost the average family up to $710 this year even after the rebates, according to the PBO.
Despite the carbon tax’s environmental failings and inflation reaching a 40-year high last year, Trudeau is moving forward with a second carbon tax on July 1.
The second carbon tax is included within fuel regulations and requires producers to reduce the carbon content of their fuels or be forced to purchase credits. The PBO estimates the second carbon tax will increase the price of gas by up to 17¢ per litre by 2030 and cost the average family up to $1,157.
The government’s own analysis shows the second carbon tax will “disproportionately impact lower and middle-income households,” including “single mothers” and “seniors living on fixed incomes.”
There are no rebates with the second carbon tax. And it’s being added on top of the current tax so that by 2030, Trudeau’s two carbon taxes will cost the average family more than $2,000 annually.
No matter how many carbon taxes Trudeau makes Canadians pay, higher gas prices in Canada won’t solve climate change.
It’s time for the feds to recognize reality and stop making life more expensive.
Franco Terrazzano is federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation "
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LTC (Join to see) This definition says it all about the climate idiots. You're right, carbon taxes are just another way for the government to collect more money that they will waste on more stupid worthless projects.
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We also have the subcategory of the trantifa or combination of transsexual and antifa that are very militant just like the climate change fanatics. Instead of transgender females with penises hitting on female swimmer Riley Gaines at San Francisco State University, they end up putting paint or other damaging coats on famous paintings all in the name of climate emergency? I remember hearing a story where I actually heard the guy complaining saying he's late for work it was a convicted Criminal on parole and he couldn't make it to work on time and thanks to those climate emergency idiots, he ended up going back to jail because he was late for work and the parole officer didn't care that these young teenage idiots were laying in the street blocking traffic in Washington DC.
Also about 6 years ago, Trudeau was trying to do a trade deal with the Chinese but built into the trade deal was some minor demands for democratic reform and that just pissed off the Chinese government and Trudeau didn't know that the Chinese are not used to saying no face to face. Trudeau ended up going home empty-handed because the Chinese communist didn't say no but they didn't say yes and I read a headline saying that President Biden was going to put pressure on the Chinese to increase their climate change carbon reduction mitigation and that's not going to happen especially if they're building a couple power plants per week. President Biden and the science of stupid!
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Also about 6 years ago, Trudeau was trying to do a trade deal with the Chinese but built into the trade deal was some minor demands for democratic reform and that just pissed off the Chinese government and Trudeau didn't know that the Chinese are not used to saying no face to face. Trudeau ended up going home empty-handed because the Chinese communist didn't say no but they didn't say yes and I read a headline saying that President Biden was going to put pressure on the Chinese to increase their climate change carbon reduction mitigation and that's not going to happen especially if they're building a couple power plants per week. President Biden and the science of stupid!
PV2 Scott Mollette Lt Col Scott Shuttleworth
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