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Federal carbon tax needs to go
Posted on November 14, 2024 by Taber TimesMany people are under the assumption that the carbon tax rebate is a wonderful thing that the federal government is providing for us. The rebate may cover the carbon tax that you have paid on your heating bill, however, do you not realize that it is covering only what you have already paid? If we had no carbon tax, you wouldn’t need a rebate. It most certainly does not cover all the carbon tax that is paid on everything else.
Carbon tax is charged on fuel and diesel that farmers use to grow crops, increasing costs on groceries; then carbon tax is charged to truck the crop to the mill or factory, increasing costs on groceries; then carbon tax is charged on the packaging, increasing costs on groceries; then carbon tax is again paid on the fuel to truck the food to the grocery store, increasing costs; the carbon tax is finally paid by the consumer on many items in the grocery store. The carbon tax is hidden in the rest of the items. It is not just the end product that the consumer pays carbon tax on, it is a multiplication of carbon taxes being added into the cost of goods and services.
“Axing the tax” would reduce the costs of most, if not all, items consumers buy.
Another misconception is that the carbon tax is benefitting the environment. The tax does nothing for the environment. The tax goes into general revenues and is not used for environmental rehabilitation. It could be argued that the tax is designed to make people drive less. However, in rural Alberta in particular, this is not an option. Significantly, the parliamentary budget officer has determined that the carbon tax does nothing to reduce emissions.
The carbon tax is a federal tax; until government changes, it will continue to grow as promised by the Liberals.
Ruth Dyck, Bow Island
2 Responses to “Federal carbon tax needs to go”
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I wonder who Ruth thinks she is fooling. Under the Carbon Tax the farmers are well looked after and the ones in Sweden where it was implemented in 1991 told me they were satisfied with it and we haven’t heard any other Alberta farmers whining about it. Do you?
The fact is it is not a tax because people are receiving more than what they are paying out, just as the oil executives knew they would.
Maybe Ruth and these other gullible Rural Albertans should stop believing the lies these Reformers are feeding them and start looking at the facts. Can she explain to us where she thinks our children and grandchildren are going to find the $260 billion to cleanup the abandon oil well cleanup mess that these Reformers dumped in their laps and why isn’t she showing more respect for our children and grandchildren’s future when they are showing a genuine fear of what Global Warming will do to them and why does she want these Reformers to ignore it when 27 countries are trying to do something about it?