Another Climate Conference in Lima, Peru (Dec. 1-12) so already scaremonger alarmism with the big pressure push by the United Nations eco-lobby for Canada to enact a nationwide Cap/Trade Carbon Tax.
Borrow more debt and give us billions of your tax-dollars or you will fry! There will be storms, floods, droughts, melting glaciers, sea-rise, pestilence, doomsday etc.
After this Lima extravaganza, the partying is in Paris next fall.
The federal Conservative Party have so far rejected the shakedown however, the Liberals and NDP assure us that a Carbon Tax is certain if they are elected.
Even Preston Manning (ex Reform/Alliance party leader) is coaching the leftists in how to deceivingly soft sell it with his word games by calling it an 'ecofiscal approach', a 'carbon levy' or a 'price on carbon' because he says people are fed up with taxes so don't call it a tax.
It appears Mr. Manning is campaigning for Alberta's Jim Prentice and the Big Oil companies who have no shame in appeasing the environmentalists to move their product to market.
Big industry cares not one whit whether there is a carbon tax because they profit from it and just pass the cost on to the consumers. Carbon trading schemes are part of the crony corruption system that facilitates political influence and quid-pro-quo campaign donations for the ruling parties.
Alberta's carbon tax is limited to Industrial emitters at $15 per tonne, which expires Dec. 31 and new premier Jim Prentice seeks to change it. Harmonize it with BC?
BC's carbon tax in comparison applies to just about everything and everybody at $30 per tonne.
Albertans beware as in 2008, Prentice was Canada's environment minister who showed his eco-leftist side as he had Syncrude charged because some stray ducks landed in their settling pond. It cost Syncrude $3 million. That's a lot of Peking Duck fundraising dinners $ per plate.
Big Industry and Environmental elites like to use BC's Carbon Tax as an example of how it hasn't affected our economy. Boulder-dash as they don't pay the bills like us little people do.
Example for the Metro Vancouver 'Translink' area: June 2014, BC's taxes/litre on - Gasoline = 32.17 cents. Diesel = 33.67 cents.
The BC Auditor General March 2013, exposed the BC carbon trading scheme as a bogus scam. It's like an elaborate circular tax-money laundering scheme.
How much does the BC Carbon Tax cost us personally?... $422 per household.
In the Budget, the Carbon Tax (2014 p.64) brings in to general revenue $1.228 billion p.15. (That's twelve hundred and twenty eight million dollars).
If you believe the 'Revenue Neutral' pretense part, you could deduct the personal tax relief credits of $447 million which leaves $781 million. (The other Tax relief measures are for businesses.)
Divide $781 million by BC's population of 4.62 million and it costs each man, woman and child $169 annually, which averages $422 per household. (Statscan 2.5 persons per BC household).
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation has also exposed this as a bad for families worthless tax.
We end users of energy products pay all of it, our food via transportation costs, fueling up at the pumps, heating our homes, airline tickets etc. The whole enchilada.
Roland resides on the West Coast of Canada adjacent to the US border. As a senior taxpayer, he has taken to writing to express his frustrations of government waste, mismanagement, overspending, and other BS extremes. Now a retired grandpa, active with his family and rural lifestyle, he spent his career years as an Architectural Designer, Carpenter and Building Inspector. He promotes good but reasonable environmental practices.
