Carbon tax is simply a sneaky way to increase tax revenue and dupe people into accepting it because its a made up environmental plight that pulls on peoples heart strings and enough accept it at least in the beginning to institute it. If they tried to raise the GST the wailing and gnashing of teeth would be overwhelming and people wouldn't accept it.
The only way they will change habits is through regulation not taxation. Quite clear to me it is about increasing revenue without actually doing anything to change the supposedly endangered environment.
All the changes or improvement to the environment over the decades has been through regulation, such as non leaded gas, emission controls, stack scrubbers and a myriad of other such things. Putting a tax on carbon without actually doing any thing to reduce it is pretty much a fraud in my opinion. Never understood how making carbon the enemy and taxing it is going to do anything. If they get away with it the next thing we will see is taxes on water and the air we breathe.
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