What is the actual benefit from federal carbon taxes
By Lethbridge Herald on October 19, 2022.
Editor:
On April 1, Justin Trudeau and all of the MPs and senators got a raise of 6.1 per cent. For Trudeau, that meant an increase of $21,604 per year (more than some people make in an entire year).
This increase is to adjust for rising living costs.
Average wages for workers increased by 3.77 per cent. The major cost increases were for housing, utilities, food and transportation.
We (the taxpayer) pay all of those costs for Trudeau, we pay the bills and he gets the cash (we pay twice).
When the federal carbon tax was imposed on Alberta in 2020, the amount was based on $30 per ton of emissions and the rebate to an Alberta couple was $666.
In 2021, the tax increased to $40 per ton (a 33 per cent increase while the rebate increased to $735 (10 per cent increase).
For 2022 the tax is now based on $50 per ton (25 per cent increase) and the rebate increased to $809 (10 per cent increase). Yet supposedly 80 per cent of us get back in rebates more than what we pay.
Both Canada and the U.S. in the past pledged to reduce there emissions by 2020 to 17 per cent less than our 2007 emissions. After four years of anti-green Donald Trump, U.S. emissions declined by 20 per cent, beating their target. After five years of Justin Trudeau plus a carbon tax Canada’s emissions were basically unchanged. So who has really benefitted from inflation and carbon taxes?
Jack Derksen
Coaldale
12-11
Mr. Derksen;
This is such a great question. Thank you for asking it. I am hoping there may be some kind of reasonable and intelligent answer/response from someone who make be able to simply explain an answer which makes some kind of sense.
What benefit? Just another tax on businesses and the little people at a time when both can least afford it! The authoritarian Trudeau government knows no bounds when it comes to taxing Canadians to death. And if this online forum is any gauge at all for the masses out there then the Trudeau sheeple must run into the millions! We have never needed Danielle’s “Sovereignty act” so desperately as we do now!
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