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Originally Posted by trueviking
Personally I think the carbon tax should be reinvested into green technology and things like transit instead of getting it back but making it revenue neutral is the only way to sell it politically as this discussion points out.
A good description fior why it still works even if you get the money back is - if I told you I would reimburse you at the end of the year all the money you spent on cauliflower, which was made more expensive through a tax, you might choose less expensive broccoli more often when you are standing at the grocery store. You still get the money back but you’ve changed your behaviour.
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If Pallister had played ball, that could have happened. The ideal is, as you say, the revenues get reinvested in electric buses, for example. Unfortunately in Canada, it has become a partisan issue with Conservatives pretty much uniformly opposed. Unfortunately, in the meantime, the environmental crisis isn't getting any better.