Paul Arbour, federal CMM NDP candidate, either likes to deliberately mislead the public, or simply can't be bothered to read beyond the headlines.
How else can you explain this blog posting. He accuses the Green Party of Canada (GPC) of wanting to raise your taxes. Which on the surface looks like what the GPC was trying to do. Why only on the surface? Because the GPC plan calls for imposing a carbon tax and taking that revenue and lowering personal income tax and payroll taxes. The net result is revenue neutral. Elizabeth May has a great blog posting about the proposal.
Paul doesn't even allude to this possibility in his posting. I hope he puts more research into other things he does or having him as our MP would be very similar to having Gordon O'Connor. Mr. O'Connor seemed to be apologizing for misleading parliament every other day.
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So you are saying that peoples personal income tax savings will also reflect their need to use cars? So a person that lives in a remote area and needs to drive everyday will get back the money they are spending on gas by lowered income tax, cpp etc. Sounds like alot of work to try and calculate who should get what kind of credit.
I do think it's a good idea to encourage people to conserve energy, or gasoline, but I have to agree with Paul when he says that putting all gas using Canadians in one category is, in my words, shortsighted.
On the surface it just sounds like a tax, of course it isn't tax, we know how good governments are at returning the money they take from us.
Paul Arbour's analysis spotlights groups of Canadians who will undoubtedly suffer financially from the Green Party's proposed carbon tax scheme. Paul appears to be that rare candidate with the ability to evaluate the impact of proposed legislation on diverse individual Canadians, and actually give a damn!
Former Green Party Leader Joan Russow couldn't have said it better:
"Taxing the baddies, not the goodies I have always been concerned about the appetite in the Green Party for “green taxes” which are best summarized by the Ontario Greens' proposal of “taxing the baddies not the goodies.” It's time that the notion of “green taxes” be examined. To some extent, green taxes, if implemented, would give a license to pollute and would undermine strong regulatory regimes.
In addition, green taxes are usually linked to promises of reduced income taxes. The problem is that green taxation undermines the principle of a “progressive” tax regime which re-distributes wealth from the rich, who pay a higher rate, to the poor. The use of “green taxes” is a market-based approach rather than a principle-based approach."
Joan Russow (PhD), former leader of the Green Party of Canada
'nuff said, Chris
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