Liberals always claim they want to redistribute money from those with too much to those with too little.
Which raises two key questions about the new Liberal carbon tax: who will pay and who will get?
Let’s start with who will pay. The federal government has mandated a tax on carbon emissions, which will raise the price of anything that uses fossil fuels. Even carbon tax supporter professor Nicholas Rivers admits the tax will raise the prices of gasoline by 11 cents-a-litre, electricity by almost 10%, and natural gas by over 15%.
Because it will raise the price of fuel required to grow and transport our food, grocery bills will rise too.
Annually, it will cost
$1028 per person, or $4112 for the average family of four, according to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
Everyone will pay it. But because poor households spend a third more of their incomes on fuel, heat, and groceries than do rich households, those with the least will suffer the most.
For the same reason,
a Statistics Canada official testified to the House of Commons Human Resources committee last month that increases in fuel and food prices lead to higher poverty rates.
The poorest families in Ontario have seen this movie before. Just look at the results of the so-called “Green Energy Act” in Ontario, which has thus far forced consumers to overpay by $37 billion to buy unneeded, unreliable, and overpriced electricity from well-connected wind and solar companies. Never has a government policy taken so much from so many to give to so few.
Trudeau carbon tax takes from the poor, gives to the rich | Poilievre | Columnis
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