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>So stop your fake concern for the poor who would have more options, and more spare cash. They would have fewer options. They already have the choice to reduce
by Aunche 4y ago
>So stop your fake concern for the poor who would have more options, and more spare cash.
They would have fewer options. They already have the choice to reduce to emissions without a carbon tax, and now they have financial pressure to go down that path.
And no, it's not "fake concern". As I've said many times, I'm pro carbon tax. I'm explaining the real economic factors that make the carbon tax politically infeasible. All it takes is a particularly cold month in the north, where people are far more reliant natural gas heating, for the pro-carbon tax camp to completely burn all their political capital for the next hundred years.
- Schroedingersat 4y agoYou're lying though. If you have $200 in your pocket for heating and natural gas heating costs $190 (because you have an equal share if the rebate but a smaller than equal share of the tax burden), you're far better off than if you have $100 in your pocket and it costs $100. If there are other options that cost $150, you now have the freedom to choose them when previously your only choice was gas.