Don't Canadians see that when Carney suspended the carbon tax, he simply substituted tariffs. Seems obvious to me. Both are oppressive, job eliminating taxes.
There's a point at which total taxation gets to where it no longer provides value to the economy and stifles productivity, and I think Canada's past that, but the governments have thrown away so much money and accumulated so much debt that getting back to lower taxes is not going to be easy.
And, as for being revenue neutral the carbon tax never was due to the hidden costs and the additional personnel involved in collecting and enforcing it. Forgotten also, is the GST charged on the total price including the carbon tax.
Also, carbon taxes do not affect people evenly because some low wage earners, especially rural people where wages are lower and travel to work is necessarily farther, are in a situation that necessarily requires more use of fuels.
Some or even many of those people are essential to a smooth running economy and they were penalized heavily and the rebate came nowhere near compensating.
The Comfortable Collapse: How America Learned to Pretend Obesity Is Normal
The America of 1960 was healthier than the America of 2025 because they lived in an environment that did not conspire against physiology.
Independent Medical Alliance Sep 17
By IMA Co-Founder Dr. Joseph Varon
Originally published by The Brownstone Institute on 09/16/2025
Walk into any American airport today and pause. Look around at the travelers waiting at the gate, the families queuing for fast food, the crowds rushing past. You are looking at a country that our grandparents would not recognize. In less than three generations, the very shape of the American body has shifted so dramatically that what would once have been regarded as rare or concerning is now routine. Airplane seats have been widened, retail clothing racks have been extended, mannequins have been reshaped, and soda cups have been enlarged. Entire industries have recalibrated to accommodate a physiology that is neither healthy nor sustainable.
Yet our cultural ...
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