December 15, 2018

Trudeau to implement tax on CO2--he's waaay smarter than Macron!


As France literally burns from weeks-long protests over French President Emmanuel Macron’s now-abandoned fuel tax, Canadian leader Justin Trudeau is sticking to his Climate Change initiative.

Cuz, see, Trudeau is way smahtah than Macron, and realizes that Macron's fatal error was that he planned to impose a tax on gasoline, at the pump. 

By contrast the canny Trudeau will tax CO2 emissions.  And it's just a small tax--just $7.5 a ton.  See, citizen?  Trivial.  Hardly anything.  And he hastens to reassure voters that they won't actually pay it.

He also counts on voters not to notice that the plan is to increase this trivial little tax to...um... $37.50 per ton in just 4 years--an increase of 500 percent!  But don't worry about that, citizen, cuz four years is way, waaay off in the future.  Heck, that's so far off that you probably won't even be using gasoline by then!  So don't worry!

But just in case a few Canadians are skeptical, Trudeau's plan uses two tactics to make the tax even less objectionable:  First, "most of the tax" will be levied from...eeeevil corporations!  Yaaaay!  Because everyone knows that when corporations pay taxes, they don't roll that extra cost into their pricing.  Perish the thought!

Finally, Trudeau's government says it plans to "rebate" most of this tax revenue--which, keep in mind, will come from eeevil corporations--to taxpayers.”

This is classic liberal political appeal to voter greed: "Don’t worry, citizens--not only will you NOT pay this tax, we'll actually GIVE part of the money we take from companies to you voters!"

Trudeau knows that most voters--like most Americans--don't understand the basic economic truth that when government taxes a company, the company passes that tax along to consumers through higher prices of whatever it makes.

He's also counting on friendly Canadian media to tout the fact that the initial tax will be a modest $7.50 per ton of CO2, and to ignore the loan-sharking 500-percent increase over the first four years.  And of course Canada's media--including state-run television--will do as he wants.  Cuz, liberal.

Imagine the howls of outrage from the same media if a politician proposed slapping a tax on, say...newsprint (for students, that's the huge rolls of paper.used to print newspapers)?  Or on broadcasting licenses.

H/T Moonbattery.

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