Canada’s 2008 Election: Green? Shift?
Ontario lawyer Paul McKeever boils down Stéphane Dion’s Liberal “Green Shift” carbon tax proposal. Either its not green, or it does not involve a shift. In other words: either it will not reduce …
Canada’s 2008 Election: Green? Shift?
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Man those refomatories sure hate paying their taxes !
January 1, 2010 5:17 pm | #1I’m so glad I discovered you, I really need things like the ‘dime demonstration’! and thank you for not speed-talking the way most people do. what is up with that? do they think the faster they talk the smarter they look?
January 1, 2010 5:20 pm | #2There’s a flaw in your logic. Under the green shift, the additional tax on fuel would increase its cost, and discourage people from buying it. What you’re saying is true only if people spent all of their income tax cut on fuel, but they would not. They would spend it on other things too. They would be incented to buy things like bikes, bus passes, and running shoes – things that are not subject to the carbon tax.
January 1, 2010 6:07 pm | #3i my pusssy is wet O
January 1, 2010 6:13 pm | #4for a lawyer i’m surprise, you think we should jsut continue to externalize the cost of pollution. have you looked into or at least glanced over other countries/pronvinces that have implemented the carbon tax.
January 1, 2010 7:09 pm | #5“In most of the developed countries of the world today, firms are paying the cost of pollution to the global environment, in the form of taxes imposed on coal, oil, and gas. But American firms are being subsidizedâand massively so. There is a simple remedy: other countries should prohibit the importation of American goods produced using energy intensive technologies, or, at the very least,
January 1, 2010 7:20 pm | #6impose a high tax on them, to offset the subsidy that those goods currently are receiving.” Just a quote from Joseph Stiglitz Professor Economics University Columbia
January 1, 2010 8:03 pm | #7Not everyone who has read the plan has come to this same conclusion. For a different (and fun) take on The Green Shift and its benefits, please see “The Green Shift in 88 Seconds” on YouTube
January 1, 2010 8:22 pm | #8According to the plan, a “significant majority” of the revenue comes from industry, while the majority of the expenses are income tax reductions and “family benefits” – you may have interpreted his sound-byte comments a certain way, but that simply doesn’t make sense if you actually look at the plan.
January 1, 2010 8:40 pm | #9Dion, as I see it, is literally hoping most voters do not look at the plan.
January 1, 2010 9:22 pm | #10