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Mostly built on real estate. Gas prices on the lower mainland are hitting $1.60 a litre and you can buy it just across the border for $.90 a litre. All that money going south and Vancouver real estate has just had its worst March since 1986. The place has made itself too expensive and uncompetitive and there is a reckoning just around the corner.  Almost everything you consume comes to you in transport powered by ICE's as do many of the services you use. These taxes are inflationary.

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Mostly built on real estate. Gas prices on the lower mainland are hitting $1.60 a litre and you can buy it just across the border for $.90 a litre. All that money going south and Vancouver real estate has just had its worst March since 1986. The place has made itself too expensive and uncompetitive and there is a reckoning just around the corner.  Almost everything you consume comes to you in transport powered by ICE's as do many of the services you use. These taxes are inflationary.

There are a lot more businesses in BC besides selling houses. They have generally done well even while reducing CO2 emissions while at the same time returning the taxes to taxpayers in the form of provincial income tax reductions.

You really do seem to get your jollies out of crude references don't ya. Where did your mama go wrong I wonder.

My mama is dead but she taught me how to spot a liberal patoot. Early detection is crucial to prevent its spread.

Not hard to tell you don't live in BC.

Have done for the past 36 years.

There are a lot more businesses in BC besides selling houses. They have generally done well even while reducing CO2 emissions while at the same time returning the taxes to taxpayers in the form of provincial income tax reductions.

That stopped in 2013/14. In the latest budget the NDP got rid of the law entirely that required the carbon tax to be returned in the form of other tax cuts. It just goes into the big pot now. The same will happen with all the carbon taxes, including Justin’s.

There is really no link between carbon taxes and reduced emissions, people and business are now taking climate change seriously and doing things on their own. Car dealers can’t keep up with demand for EV’s. Tesla is the top seller and almost all of them are too expensive to qualify for rebates. The US is reducing emissions at a greater rate than we are without carbon taxes.

Vancouver now has the most expensive fuel in North America with 54 cents a litre in taxes. Many industries have no other options like transport, marine and aviation. That will drag on the economy eventually.

That stopped in 2013/14. In the latest budget the NDP got rid of the law entirely that required the carbon tax to be returned in the form of other tax cuts. It just goes into the big pot now. The same will happen with all the carbon taxes, including Justin’s.

There is really no link between carbon taxes and reduced emissions, people and business are now taking climate change seriously and doing things on their own. Car dealers can’t keep up with demand for EV’s. Tesla is the top seller and almost all of them are too expensive to qualify for rebates. The US is reducing emissions at a greater rate than we are without carbon taxes.

Vancouver now has the most expensive fuel in North America with 54 cents a litre in taxes. Many industries have no other options like transport, marine and aviation. That will drag on the economy eventually.

Well it hasn't dragged it so far and independent analysis claims 8 of 10 families actually benefit from the rebates when all is said and done. 

Well it hasn't dragged it so far and independent analysis claims 8 of 10 families actually benefit from the rebates when all is said and done.

It will. You can only tax so far and you have to remain competitive.  BC is pricing itself out of markets. Young proffesionals are leaving the lower mainland because it is just too expensive to ever get ahead.

Yes they mean next to nothing. People don't budget their week to week expenses by an arbitrary tax rebate they get once a year.

It actually would, at least, be intellectually honest for them to use the money to help with R&D to help reduce carbon emissions through efficiencies and not punitive taxes.

And the tax rebate for exceeds the difference in price on what most people spend on gasoline in a year anyway. But let's not recognize that either.