tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post1178863378181524224..comments2024-03-28T04:04:03.006-07:00Comments on Paying attention: A great weakness in the carbon tax sales jobUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-12557133421641959992008-07-05T15:21:00.000-07:002008-07-05T15:21:00.000-07:00Now we are getting tow full page adds in many news...Now we are getting tow full page adds in many newspapers telling us hw great a deal this is. The money could be better spent on getting the poor and sick a place to sleep or maybe reopen a few operating rooms or a school or two. The big sell is on My gosh the two page adds are in the Globe and Mail as well. Nobody in ant other province is getting stuck with this dealAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-77727217637128489392008-07-03T21:49:00.000-07:002008-07-03T21:49:00.000-07:00Gordo is in the Globe this evening( Thurday 3) tel...Gordo is in the Globe this evening( Thurday 3) telling those folks way up north to stop being dependent on using Diesel. I don't quite understand what he wishes them to use . I never saw a bus system in Tuk or as far south as Inuvik, but if Gordo says is time to stop, well they better get their collective acts together. When King Gordo says stop by gosh they better listen. Wonder just whom he will be lecturing tomorrow. It's bad enough he can ram through legislation in BC but he really hasn't a clue on what's used in the high north. No trees to burn, no rapid transit and no bus stops. But Gordo is always right folks so get your acts together up north of 60 or else. My gosh we sure pick some weird MLA'sAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-68866616795492453112008-07-03T19:35:00.000-07:002008-07-03T19:35:00.000-07:00I guess if, after 7 years of Campbell and the Libe...I guess if, after 7 years of Campbell and the Liberals, people are all convinced that all they want to do is *raise* taxes, it just shows that people are morons, especially on the subject of taxes, I'm not sure there's much more to read into it than that.<BR/><BR/>And that's without getting into the people who alternate between arguing that the tax is too small to affect their behaviour but big enough to drive them into bankruptcy.Declanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07930743440194279349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-71415066238856010572008-07-02T21:02:00.000-07:002008-07-02T21:02:00.000-07:00The carbon tax shouldn't be called social engineer...The carbon tax shouldn't be called social engineering. In terms of economics, it's actually a tax to cover the 'externality' of fossil fuels. Essentially, the tax captures the real cost instead of the market cost of using fuel. Setting the right price of the tax is the tricky part.<BR/><BR/>A more clear example, is cigarettes. Smoking has a HUGE social cost. Smokers have way higher health costs over their lifetime then non-smokers. By taxing them on their purchase, we help recover some of the 'social cost'. <BR/><BR/>The NDP are trying to score political points or do not have a flipping clue about how economics work (I suspect the latter) because taxing the suppliers of fossil fuel is useless. The cost will get past on to consumers easily because there are so few suppliers who have a lot of market power.Alex McAulayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09696274837440661691noreply@blogger.com