2024-07-15 14:56:55
Canada's independent Parliamentary Budget Officer, a neutral agent of Parliament, conducted an analysis which shows the average family where the carbon tax applies will pay hundreds of dollars more in carbon taxes than they get back in rebates. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(34-1-17) Author
2024-07-15 15:52:43
NNN. The report linked, as admitted by the PBO was erroneously using incorrect calculations, which skewed their numbers. Add. "...both the PBO and the [independent] group of economists agree the majority of Canadian households receive more in rebates than they pay..." [Link][Link][Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(13-1-7) Author
2024-07-15 20:46:30
The PBO's evaluation has long been updated and says that 8 out of 10 Canadian families will be ahead with the carbon program. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(5-1-4) Author
2024-07-16 18:59:31
It's unquantifiable the cost to Canadians for Carbon pricing. Politicians and proponents of carbon pricing are using this lag to extol it's virtues. It is now the generally held opinion that carbon pricing has cost Canadians more than they will receive in a rebate all in. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(3-0-2) Author
2024-07-16 19:33:44
I checked my bank account today and last time in April neither time did i receive a nickle. It is commonly known in Canada that this is not a zero sum tax as claimed by Trudeau. They changed oin midstream by calling what was originally a carbon tax to a carbon rebate. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(2-0-1) Author