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A key point is what Canada proposes to do with the revenue from the carbon tax. It s going to be divvied up evenly among Canadians and rebated back to them. So people with low carbon emissions will be better off, they ll get more back from the rebate than they pay in tax. But the high emitters pay more, preferably a lot more. This is the model used by British Columbia for quite a while now, and it has broad support there. Another key point is that a carbon tax directly targets the behaviour we want to eliminate. None of the monkeying around trying to hide it as something else, or setting up weird trading schemes that imply some sort of right to pollute . Just the simple message that if you dump hazardous waste into the atmosphere, you have to pay, no ifs buts or maybes. ....
Written By: weka - Date published: 10:37 am, December 12th, 2020 - 68 comments One of the more useful things in recent weeks in the debate about housing is the clarity of Jacinda Ardern’s position, Jacinda Ardern says ‘sustained moderation’ remains the Government’s goal when it comes to house prices, as people ‘expect’ the value of their most valuable asset to keep rising … Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she would like to see small increases in houses prices, acknowledging most people “expect” the value of their most valuable asset to keep rising. Two things there. One is that the government has no intention of dropping or even preventing further increase of house prices. ....
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