In a poll, 80% of Canadians responded that Canada's carbon tax had increased their cost of living. The poll took place two weeks before Canada's carbon tax was introduced.
There was a hilarious exchange I saw here about a year or so ago. This guy was complaining about how devastating the federal carbon tax would be on his life, it'd make food and gas unaffordable, drive him into bankruptcy, destroy the economy, etc, etc. But then he let something slip: he lived in Alberta, where there was already a carbon tax in place.
So this guy who's 100% sure of the destructive and unignorable impact of a carbon tax was completely unaware that he'd been paying one for years.
One of the great falls of western democracy has been ridiculing the devaluation of ignorance.
If people were accepting of not knowing things, they would be ready to research, listen to experts, forge middle ground informed opinions and engage as citizens.
But nooooo, everyone must have an opinion of everything from the time they ear about the concept...
Edit: Ridicule was not really the right word... Devaluation? In the sense that being accepting of ignorance is valuable but is not being valued by our society; the flip side being the valuation of opiniation over information...
TenTonApe on August 15th, 2019 at 13:08 UTC »
There was a hilarious exchange I saw here about a year or so ago. This guy was complaining about how devastating the federal carbon tax would be on his life, it'd make food and gas unaffordable, drive him into bankruptcy, destroy the economy, etc, etc. But then he let something slip: he lived in Alberta, where there was already a carbon tax in place.
So this guy who's 100% sure of the destructive and unignorable impact of a carbon tax was completely unaware that he'd been paying one for years.
blond-max on August 15th, 2019 at 13:36 UTC »
One of the great falls of western democracy has been ridiculing the devaluation of ignorance.
If people were accepting of not knowing things, they would be ready to research, listen to experts, forge middle ground informed opinions and engage as citizens.
But nooooo, everyone must have an opinion of everything from the time they ear about the concept...
Edit: Ridicule was not really the right word... Devaluation? In the sense that being accepting of ignorance is valuable but is not being valued by our society; the flip side being the valuation of opiniation over information...
snoboreddotcom on August 15th, 2019 at 13:41 UTC »
What I found hilarious was the weeks before the carbon tax came in gas in Ontario spiked, up to 1.25.
So the Ontario government released all these ads about the tax when it came into effect, showing the price of gas increasing 10 cents into the 1.35s
the problem? Outside influences depressed gas prices when the carbon tax came in. So the week it went into effect I saw prices about 1.15