Saw the Premier's press conference this morning and felt disappointed.
I, on principle, am against donating to political parties. So I decided to take some action by donating to charities (and at the same time sending an eCard to my MPP).
Hi Mr.Anand, I would like to thank Premier Ford and the Ontario PCs for bringing the carbon tax to Ontario by cancelling the Cap and Trade program in 2018. The carbon tax that was held as constitutional by the Supreme Court of Canada. I am donating to Gen Squeeze (832390199RR0001) and the Greenbelt Foundation (822521878RR0001) as a result of the maligned press conference hosted by the Premier on April 2, 2024. Sincerely, *****, an active constituent from Mississauga-Malton.
On March 26th, 2024, 300+ leading Canadian Economists signed an open letter on carbon pricing.
the most vocal opponents of carbon pricing are not offering alternative policies to reduce emissions and meet our climate goals. And they certainly aren’t offering any alternatives that would reduce emissions at the same low cost as carbon pricing.
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Carbon Taxes work, and have been demonstrated to work multiple times
The point of them is to change dirty products to cost their real amount.
Without a carbon tax, dirty fuels and a very cheap, and absolutely dirty products can be cheap. Whereas, you are actually adding the real cost to them, which makes clean, efficient products cheaper and affordable by the lower class
All it does is attach the real cost to everything.
You know what REALLY affects middle and lower classes? 2 degree rise in temperature.
I know that because I was a tradie for 10 years for high end clients, and some of them live in 5 story mansions with triple glazed windows, concrete, and $70,000 high-efficiency aircon systems. They save money there, but, they spend heaps of money on stupid shit they should be charged extra for (and likely will with a carbon tax).
These guys won't even notice global warming. You and I will.
I never disputed carbon taxes work, you dong dong.
I just think the middle class shouldn't be footing the bill for it while the billionaires have 12 mansions.
Don't you think the people who have the most wealth and the most power should also be taking the most responsibility?
That is effectively how the current carbon pricing system works.
Only the upper parts of the middle class on average pay in more than they get back.
Oh. So let the middle class buy all the carbon polluting crap they want at cheaper rates? Which they'll then onsell to other people
That won't work
The trick to distributing wealth is force the rich and multi nationals to pay their taxes