{"id":15778,"date":"2021-04-18T20:14:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T20:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=15778"},"modified":"2021-04-18T20:34:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T20:34:01","slug":"a-tax-is-a-tax-unless-wink-wink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=15778","title":{"rendered":"a tax is a tax unless wink wink&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-0 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Not-A-Tax.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15786\" width=\"1000\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Not-A-Tax.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Not-A-Tax-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Not-A-Tax-768x463.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Erin O\u2019Toole has committed the Conservative party to putting a carbon levy on fuel, while insisting it can\u2019t be called a <strong>tax<\/strong> because the money doesn\u2019t go into government accounts. The climate plan would be implemented without a consumer-based carbon<strong> tax <\/strong>and  Justin Trudeau\u2019s carbon <strong>tax<\/strong> would be repealed, omitting the fact O&#8217;Toole would still impose a new $20-per-tonne carbon charge on consumers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O\u2019Toole claims his own fuel charge \u2014 which would stop rising at $50 per tonne \u2014 isn\u2019t a carbon <strong>tax<\/strong> because the money goes into a personalized savings account that consumers can spend on government-approved, environmentally-friendly purchases. (Oh Erin that sounds like the Nanny State tsk. tsk.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image-copy2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15784\" width=\"1000\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image-copy2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image-copy2-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image-copy2-768x456.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>With this explanation the Conservative base of anti carbon tax supporters breathed a sigh of relief&#8230;.NOT!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Climate policy experts celebrated the fact that all major political parties now endorse carbon pricing. But they derided the carbon savings account as a bizarre, administratively-complex mechanism concocted for purely political reasons. noting that you <em>get more money to spend if you burn more fossil fuels <\/em>\u2014 the opposite of a low-carbon incentive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15785\" width=\"1000\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image-copy.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image-copy-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image-copy-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>O\u2019Toole will have a tough sell with his party\u2019s base that he\u2019s not implementing a carbon <strong>tax<\/strong>. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is already gearing up for a campaign against it, citing this pledge signed during the leadership race: \u201cI, Erin O\u2019Toole promise that, if elected Prime Minister of Canada, I will: Immediately repeal the Trudeau carbon <strong>tax<\/strong>; and, reject any future national carbon <strong>tax<\/strong> or cap-and-trade scheme.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Post Millennial, a right-wing media outlet&nbsp; is now filled with headlines opposing the climate plan. \u201cO\u2019Toole\u2019s \u2018government-knows-best\u2019 carbon<strong> tax <\/strong>scheme is anti-Conservative Party,\u201d says one. \u201cTrudeau Environment Minister calls new Tory climate plan the \u2018O\u2019Toole carbon <strong>tax<\/strong>,&#8217;\u201d says another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em> Edited from Ottawa Citizen article by Brian Platt:  Apr 17, 2021<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The carbon price isn\u2019t just about dollars and cents, it\u2019s a culture war thingy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Court-Painter-It-is-not-a-tax.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15787\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Court-Painter-It-is-not-a-tax.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Court-Painter-It-is-not-a-tax-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Court-Painter-It-is-not-a-tax-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erin O\u2019Toole has committed the Conservative party to putting a carbon levy on fuel, while insisting it can\u2019t be called a tax because the money doesn\u2019t go into government accounts. The climate plan would be implemented without a consumer-based carbon tax and Justin Trudeau\u2019s carbon tax would be repealed, omitting the fact O&#8217;Toole would still &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=15778\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;a tax is a tax unless wink wink&#8230;.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15778"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15794,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15778\/revisions\/15794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}