Canaidian Governments stupid reason for a carbon tax

In CA we have a tax on gas, that you pay when you buy the gas. How is this tax to be paid? Annually, quarterly, from the paychecks of everyone? If they want to penalize gas users, why not take it to the pumps?

You have so nailed it, addysmum! You ought to have this published so everyone in the WORLD can see that a tax that seems to affect one small part of the economy affects all of us! Taxes always gets kick down to the cusumer in the end run!

the only way you can change this is by voting today! dont vote liberal! we are in ontario and we plan our trips, i do a lot of errands by bus because we only have one vehicle which my hubby takes to work. for us, it works out ok.

As a Canadian tax payer and a small business owner I can only see this additional tax as a burdon on me and my customers. It isn't like it is going to stop many people from driving. I say tax the big polluting corporations but leave the little guys alone we have a hard enough time as it is already.

Hi addy-that is ridiculous..how does the government expect people to live? Its alright for them as they are getting paid huge amount of salary taxing people for polluting the air is not the answer at all thye should think again..it wouldn't surprise me if we all go back to using pony and cart! Fortunatley I live in the UK and that hasn't happened here (yet) and I can't drive but my heart goes out to those who do..littleowl

Our goverments collect taxes, and pay for all the things they think we need, or that we demand. They do a lot of things with that money that I approve of, like education and health, roads etc, but they also do things with it I hate, like pay for wars. I don't like that but I also realise that no country can unilaterally disarm, because it makes it too vulnerable, so I have to accept that some of my taxes go for that. The industrialised world has given us most of the things we now take for granted, like electricity, and gas, and petrol, and efficient agriculture, but all of those things come at an environmental cost. That cost is now on the point of sending us bankrupt, metaphorically speaking, with global warming. I know there are some who refuse to accept that, but I'll take the scientific word of thousands of the world's top scientists over the word of a handful of other scientists who deny it, many of whom are employed by companies and organisations who have a vested intererst in the continuance of business as usual. Carbon emissions have to be dealt with. Again metaphorically speaking, they are the "evil empire" of this generation, and if we can't bring carbon emissions under control, millions will be displaced, large areas of the world, including large areas of both our countries, will be under water, the economic structures will face total collapse, and civilisation could take centuries to recover. The people in power who criticise carbon taxes loudly and vehemently are almost invariably those with a lot to lose if the taxes come in. I don't mean small business people like you, I mean the giant corporations whose obscene profits depend to a large extent on despoiling the world. They rely on people like you, who fear the economic distress these taxes will bring, to allow them to continue business as usual. Yes, the costs will in some measure be passed on to the consumer, but it is the consumer whose demands for power and fuel allow the corporations their profits. We are all to blame to some extent. Finally some governemnts (my own government is phasing in the same sort of tax over the next three or four years) are trying to do something to stop the bleeding, and a lot of thought over the past twenty years has gone in to the concept of carbon taxes as the only viable way. It is exactly like them using your taxes to fund wars, a vile necessity. It would be far better if military budgets could be spent on health or education, or our taxes decresed; similarly, it would be better not to have to impose carbon taxes, but the only way that can happen is if millions of us voluntarily choose to radically lower our standards of living, the very thing that has brought about the unacceptably high level of carbon emissions. So it is not only the companies who are being targeted, we all are, but of course no government can say that out loud. Nevertheless, there is a strong element in these taxes of the thought that, if people will not voluntarily lower their SOL, it will have to be made so expensive that they are forced to do it. The only problem with this, and it is a major problem, is that, as usual, it is the lower income people who are going to suffer most. But since that's a problem in almost everything governments do, and isn't unique to carbon taxing, I guess we'll just have to lump it in with the rest. Lash