Time fo Gas Tax Honesty in BC?

This article on Burnaby Now is published on June 6, 2009. Since 1999, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, had held “gas tax honesty day” each year. Yes there are a lot of tax associated with gasoline, and it is a tax grab from the government. Same with tabacco tax and alcohol tax. But, the Carbon Tax imposed on gasoline and other fossil fuels is not the same! Again and again, people are misunderstood because those who publish articles do not understand (or do not want others to understand) the “revenue neutral carbon tax” system that is implemented in BC. In BC, the carbon tax is set up so that if you change your behaviour, you may be rewarded! I don’t want to re-write what i wrote before, you can read more about the BC Carbon Tax here and here.

I agree that we need to be honest about what tax we’re paying into the “Gas tax”; but we also need to be honest about the “carbon tax”.I don’t think this article was honest about that! Also, I also disagree that Stephen Harper was right when he said a carbon tax will “screw everybody”.

The bottome line is that we know that we need a price on carbon so that we’ll eventually change our behaviours! Don’t forget that the carbon tax in BC was found to be the best climate change policy in Canada.

LoLee Green

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