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To: "John Feldsted" <jfeldsted@shaw.ca>
Subject: You can bet your sweet bippy:
You can bet your sweet bippy:
That a carbon tax will increase the costs of every purchase we make. Nothing we buy him from the store got there without some form of fossil fuel transport. Increased costs of transportation will add to the costs we pay at the till. The amount of increase will depend on the distance that goods were transported.
That no government tax is ever �revenue neutral�. For one thing, someone has to feed and water the bureaucrats who collect the tax. Nothing a government does is without cost. The best the government can do is return whatever is left after its expenses are paid.
That a carbon tax will hit those people with the lowest income the hardest. Inflation hurts those with little or no disposable income the most. For many people increased fuel costs translate to no cup of coffee on the way to work.
It would not be so bad or so sad if governments could assure us that the sacrifices made will guarantee a reduction in climate change. That is something that proponents of carbon emission reductions carefully avoid and refused to talk about. Why the reluctance?
When someone tries to sell us something that is supposed to be better or better for us we tend to be wary. It turns out that the clean diesel engines that were going to revolutionize the auto industry turned out to be far less than advertised. Then we find out that the airbags that added to the costs of our autos are faulty and potentially lethal.
Carbon reduction is a theory not a science. It is being sold as a fact but if it�s everything that governments tell us it is why don�t we get a guarantee? If the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) proves to be wrong (again) can we sue their socks off? So far, the infamous �hockey stick� data model has proven to be a dud and the IPCC quit using the term �global warming� and shifted to �climate change�. Changing the color of a larger box and adding the words �New and Improved� is straight out of cereal and soap advertising. The contents haven�t changed but the vendors hope we believe they have.
Nearly 25,000 delegates and another 25,000 people from 190 nations gathered in Paris for the last IPCC conference and none of them gave a darn about the huge carbon footprints left to get them to Paris and back home. In this era of worldwide electronic connectivity that tells us all we need to know about the sincerity of the IPCC - they are living high on the public dime and intend to do so for as long as possible. Most fraud artists do.
John Feldsted
Political Consultant & Strategist
Winnipeg, Manitoba
If anyone would like to be added to my mailing list, send an e-mail to jfeldsted@shaw.ca With a subject line: Conservative Friends List
John (and others) Am I a heretic to argue changes to the EARTH/SUN relationship might be more impactful than our actions?
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Larry Kazdan
To: Toronto Star <lettertoed@thestar.ca>
Subject: Re: Trudeau must make budget work for working people: Opinion, Mark Hancock, March 2, 2017
- https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2017/03/02/trudeau-must-make-budget-work-for-working-people-opinion.html
- Eliminating inequality will certainly require increased taxes on the rich, but the government of Canada owns a central bank and can immediately strengthen the nation�s frayed social safety net regardless of any tax receipts. Consider that during the recent financial crisis, the federal government made $200 billion available to support private sector lenders under the Extraordinary Financing Framework. As economist Jim Stanford has written in his book Economics for Everyone, "If money can be created out of thin air by the government's own bank, to buy financial securities, why can't it be created out of thin air to do other things - like putting people back to work in real jobs? The answer is, 'It can be.'"
- Our economy currently has many unused resources, including 1.3 million Canadians actively seeking work, and inflation is quite subdued. Robust deficit spending is not currently problematic, need not be followed by more tax on the middle class, and can be deployed strategically to create the many thousands of jobs necessary to reduce poverty and inequality. The rich may resist taxation, but necessary federal expenditures for social progress need not wait nor depend on what can be collected.
- Footnotes:
- 1. Stanford Quote: Economics for Everyone, Second Edition, A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism, p. 352
- https://www.policyalternatives.ca/economics-for-everyone#sthash.i7fjJwWl.dpuf
- 2. Taxes and the Public Purpose
- http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2014/05/taxes-public-purpose.html
- "....taxes do not �pay for� government spending. Indeed, no taxes can be
- collected until government has spent. Taxes create a demand for the
- government�s spending and logically precede that spending.
- As we�ve argued, it is neither correct nor politically sensible to
- link �give to the poor� policy to �tax the rich� policy. The purpose of
- the tax is to free up resources to pursue the public purpose�including
- anti-poverty programs.
- But our tax system is already doing a HECKUV A JOB creating
- unemployed resources. We can spend on the poor (and on a full range of
- other public policies) and thereby mobilize those unemployed resources....
- "....taxes do not �pay for� government spending. Indeed, no taxes can be
- 3. Improving Access to Financing and Strengthening Canada's ...
- www.fin.gc.ca/pub/report-rapport/2011-7/ceap-paec-2f-eng.asp
- To soften the impact of the crisis, the first phase of Canada's Economic Action Plan included measures to provide up to $200 billion to support lending to Canadian households and businesses through the Extraordinary Financing Framework.
- To soften the impact of the crisis, the first phase of Canada's Economic Action Plan included measures to provide up to $200 billion to support lending to Canadian households and businesses through the Extraordinary Financing Framework.
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