B.C. carbon tax an effective model for national climate change approach: report

[taxslave]

That's not to say it hasn't been rough for some organizations. Like others have mentioned, school boards have had to pay more money, and they don't typically get large capital budgets to replace their heating systems. But the tax has done what it was intended to do, reduce the use of fuel in the province, all while reducing income taxes and without destroying the BC economy. People may disagree with the goal, but they can't deny the fact that it has been very successful at achieving the intended end points.

It has also been rather unfairly applied. Outside of the lower mainland and part of the island few places have Natural Gas for heat. No public transit either. So basically it is a tax on rural BC. At the same time a fair chunk of our taxes helps pay for subsidised public transit and freeways in and around Vancouver.

 

[Tonington]

It has also been rather unfairly applied. Outside of the lower mainland and part of the island few places have Natural Gas for heat. No public transit either.

How many places in BC don't have natural gas? My dad lives in Cranbrook and they have it there, they also have public transit. My family in the Okanagan valley have gas, and public transit options.

I'm sure there are some places that don't have these options, but I'm skeptical that they figure largely in the receipts of the carbon tax.

 

[taxslave]

How many places in BC don't have natural gas? My dad lives in Cranbrook and they have it there, they also have public transit. My family in the Okanagan valley have gas, and public transit options.

I'm sure there are some places that don't have these options, but I'm skeptical that they figure largely in the receipts of the carbon tax.

More than half of the island has no gas. Most of the north. None have transit either. It is areas away from NG that are resource producers and that is a large fuel user. Also there have been at least two pulp mills closed in that time frame. And now the coal mines at Tumbler ridge do to costs being higher than revenues. FUel is a big cost and it all adds up.
Carbon tax, like any tax only works when it can be passed off to the end user but when you are selling on the world market extra costs cannot always be passed on. SO businesses close and working people loose their jobs.

 

[JamesBondo]

B.C. carbon tax an effective model for tax gouging government with no viable solution for reducing emmsions

 

[B00Mer]

B.C. carbon tax an effective model for tax gouging government with no viable solution for reducing emmsions

So true.

 

[coldstream]

The Carbon Tax has been a huge lodestone around the neck of BCs economy... addressing a completely FRAUDULENT proposition.

You have these lunatics in Peru not discussing the outrageous nonsense that passes for Climate Science and the utter failure of its predictions and corrupt underlying 'models'.. but ways to implement carbon controls that they know will devastate the world's economy.. and make it incapable of supporting its present population, much less any growth.

But that's the sinister small print in the whole process. It is a cult being run by viciously anti-human ideologues.. who want to set up a pristine eco utopia free of human contamination except in small manageable colonies.. maybe 10% of the world's present population..

BC has a long history of morons and patsies for any New Age credos that come around.. and that continues. Any government would be terminally Foolish to follow its lead in anything.

 

[waldo]

B.C. carbon tax an effective model for tax gouging government with no viable solution for reducing emmsions

The Carbon Tax has been a huge lodestone around the neck of BCs economy... addressing a completely FRAUDULENT proposition.

- for the 2013–14 fiscal year: the B.C. carbon tax is forecast to raise $1.2 billion. Per the revenue neutrality of the Carbon Tax Act, that money raised by the carbon tax must be used to reduce other provincial taxes. In 2013–14 the largest reduction measures were:

- cutting corporate income taxes ($440 million) and
- cutting personal income taxes ($237 million) and
- providing low-income tax credits ($194 million); additionally,
- personal and business tax credits totaled $361.

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- study presents recent analysis showing, "per capita fossil fuel use declined by 16.1 per cent in B.C. from 2008 through 2013. The same metric has risen by over three per cent in the rest of Canada. During this same period, B.C.’s per capita GDP has slightly outpaced the rest of Canada’s, growing by 1.75 per cent versus 1.28 per cent."

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[JamesBondo]

1.2 billion dollars of carbon taxes. and I've done more for reducing CO2 emissions by farting into a pillow.