30.04.2015 - Cap-and-trade plan just another Liberal cash grab
The more we learn about Premier Kathleen Wynne’s cap-and-trade plan, the more apparent it becomes it’s just another multi-billion-dollar Liberal cash grab. Here’s why: The purpose of carbon pricing, or so we’re told, is not to raise more money for governments, but to change human behaviour by getting us to consume less. That’s why any credible carbon pricing system raises taxes on consumption (in effect, a broadly based sales tax) and then returns every dollar raised to the public in income tax cuts. The purpose is to encourage people to consume less, since consumption leads to increased greenhouse gas emissions because fossil fuel energy is required to produce virtually all goods and services today...............................................Full Article: Source
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