You guys just don't understand the Green Shift. Harper's brainwashed you into thinking it's a bunch of taxes... but it's not! It's a comprehensive and innovative plan that will save us all money, create jobs, cut income tax and propel us into the future.
Fossil fuels are a quagmire, it's time to evolve our minds and our country!
You're right on the last line, but other then that, I believe you're slightly misguided:
#1 - I understand the Green Shift all too well, and exactly what it's going to mean to us all.
#2 - Harper didn't have to do anything to brainwash us, Dion did a good enough job all on his own..... and it is "A Bunch of Taxes" since it's dubbed a "Carbon Tax."
#3 - It will not save us any money at all, as there is nothing removing the loopholes in his plan of preventing the factories and companies passing their expenses onto the consumer, ie: you and I. Case in point would be the gas issue at present. Notice how the gas prices have gone up? Notice how our foods, bills and other products have also gone up in price? Add a carbon tax that makes those same companies and products have to dish out more for how they make their products, and all they will do is yet again, increase the costs of their products to meet this new carbon tax demand put onto them...... hince it is not put onto them, it is put onto us.
#4 - The only jobs this will create will be in the new departments made to operate this stupid plan. Meanwhile our companies and factories will have to cut jobs/workers in order to meet this new cost put onto them.
#5 - Cut Income Tax? Most people don't get anything back on their income taxes to begin with..... not everybody does their income taxes. Not everybody can file their income taxes. What about the people who came from other countries who are using working visas and other, in order to work in Canada? They can claim any of their additional costs on income tax, and get their money back, therefore all the money they had to add ontop of their everyday lives, will remain in the hands of Dion and the Liberals, therefore it does not balance out to anything, except another tax and another money grab by the LIberals.
#6 - Look up the HST/BST here in Nova Scotia. Who created it? what was the original intention for making this tax? What to the majority of maritimers think of it now?
Answers: The Liberals Created it here in Atlantic Canada..... The original intention was to reduce the tax burdens on products that were taxed with both PST and GST, which originally added up to about 18% to one tax of the HST of 15%. Sounded great huh? Yeah, we thought so too.... except that they completely removed both the GST and PST here, and therefore anything that had either tax of 7% GST or 11% PST, was not a 15% HST..... therefore overall, we end up dishing out even more then what we did before.
ie: Tax Grab.
Here's a tid bit in regards to why we can't seem to keep doctors here:
Harmonized sales tax a taxing issue for MDs in Atlantic Canada
http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/reprint/157/10/1411.pdf
#7 - Due to the HST/BST, do you think that idiotic tax propelled us into the future any? Quick answer: We're worse off then we were before.
I know first hand what this stupid Carbon Tax will spell for the rest of Canada, and I know this plan will cripple our country. I agree we need to move from fossil fuels..... but this carbon tax BS is clearly not the answer.
