There are better ways to improve affordability, such as policies to reduce housing, child care and other major costs of living
Whenever I hear politicians propose to cut the carbon price, I can’t help but think back to my childhood growing up with divorced parents.
On the rare occasions my dad took me for weekends, he would offer me candy and let me stay up late.
“Why can’t you be more like him?” I’d yell after returning home as my mom made me do my homework, eat vegetables and go to bed on time.
So it is with proponents of Axe the Tax. They offer us candy, when the federal government, like my mom, expects us to live responsibly.
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But a politician’s promise that pollution can be free is no more realistic than my childish fantasy that I could live on candy alone.
We are all entangled in an energy system that helps and harms our children. While it enables us to taxi our kids around, and keep them warm, it also poisons the air they breathe, evaporates the water they need to drink and burns the forests in which they play.
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To preserve summers without smoke, winters when our kids can ski, water they can drink and forests and wildlife with which they can live in awe.
That’s why we pay for our pollution.
This dude gets it. We need to do so much more, but walking back the carbon tax is a terrible idea.
Government debt and finances do have a solution and its easy … tax the hell out of the rich
It limits the runaway power and excesses of the rich and redistributes some of that wealth back to the people at the bottom. It stabilizes the economy because it distributes wealth and distributed wealth benefits everyone.
Otherwise, if you just build an economic system that only sends and accumulates money with a small group of people … it works great for a while but it isn’t sustainable and will eventually collapse.
But what do I know … I’m not rich … it’s the rich that benefit from the current system and its the rich that control the whole system … so I don’t see the system changing any time soon.
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Government debt and finances do have a solution and its easy … tax the hell out of the rich
It limits the runaway power and excesses of the rich and redistributes some of that wealth back to the people at the bottom. It stabilizes the economy because it distributes wealth and distributed wealth benefits everyone.
Otherwise, if you just build an economic system that only sends and accumulates money with a small group of people … it works great for a while but it isn’t sustainable and will eventually collapse.
But what do I know … I’m not rich … it’s the rich that benefit from the current system and its the rich that control the whole system … so I don’t see the system changing any time soon.