REMEMBER BREXIT? That time a Conservative Party directed widespread voter frustration at a single easy scapegoat, smothered the public with misinformation, and were rewarded with their biggest electoral victory in decades? Something similar is happening today in Canada.
The scapegoat this time is the “carbon tax.” That’s actually just one part of a complex carbon-pricing policy that imposes a fuel charge on consumers and industry alike while delivering a rebate directly to most Canadians. The principle is simple: raise the cost of something and people find ways to use less of it. But it’s also ripe for slander, because the fine print is so complicated: the amount you pay and are reimbursed depends on where you live, how much you make, how big your family is, and what you do for a living. Plus, while the government calls it “carbon pricing,” most people know it simply as a “tax.”
You’d have to be psychotic and suicidal to not implement a carbon tax.
Alternately, greedy and short-sighted.
There’s a metric fuckload of money to be made before the shit really hits the fan. What these shitheads don’t realize is that money won’t save them once you can’t breathe the air, drink the water, or grow the food.
Can’t eat dollars
In the mind of a common sense conservative, money will always equate directly to power. It can not fail because that would mean everything has failed.