Author Topic: Rant - math literacy  (Read 662 times)

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Offline waldo

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Re: Rant - math literacy
« Reply #75 on: May 02, 2019, 10:48:17 am »
$31 USD in 2010 with a 3% per year increase gives $40 USD in 2019 or about $50 CAD. It is likely not a co-incidence that Trudeau came up with that number. Of course, Trudeau's tax is in addition to a large number of taxes on fossil fuels today so the real carbon tax in Canada is much higher than the current SCC. (Aside: it is simply absurd to argue that current fuel taxes are not carbon taxes because the carbon tax rational does not care about the reason for tax - only that the tax must exist. So when calculating whether Canadians are paying the current SCC all fuel taxes must be factored in and we are currently paying more than what we should given the estimates of future harm).

for completeness in a thread about math literacy: it's actually $31 USD in 2015 (at a 2010 dollar value)... brings the increase to half your calculation @~$35 U.S. or about ~$47 CAD.

again, in terms of the origins of the Canadian SCC, that ties to Harper Conservatives aligning the Canadian cost to that developed by the Americans... the reasons behind that alignment are, in themselves, open for discussion/debate. In any case, that Harper Conservative carbon costing (initial/Previous Central & as adjusted/Updated Central in 2016... by Harper Conservatives):



the actual Liberal governement/PM Trudeau carbon pricing which you keep... Harpering on about... reflects upon this summary statement: "The federal carbon pollution price will start low at $20 per ton in 2019, rising at $10 per ton per year until reaching $50 per ton in 2022. The carbon tax will stay at that level unless the legislation is revisited and revised."