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Quebec to bring in Canada's first carbon tax on fuel
Canada.com ^
| 6-7-2007
| Kevin Dougherty
Posted on 06/07/2007 10:11:18 AM PDT by MooseMan
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It's only a matter of time. Gas prices aren't high enough. Add more gas taxes, then blame big-oil.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
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posted on
06/07/2007 10:11:21 AM PDT
by
MooseMan
To: MooseMan; Killing Time; Beowulf; Mr. Peabody; RW_Whacko; honolulugal; SideoutFred; Ole Okie; ...
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posted on
06/07/2007 10:14:18 AM PDT
by
xcamel
("It's Thompson Time!")
To: MooseMan
Stupidity: The Pandemic we were never warned about.
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posted on
06/07/2007 10:15:53 AM PDT
by
LIConFem
(Thompson 2008. Lifetime ACU Rating: 86 -- Hunter 2008 (VP) Lifetime ACU Rating: 92)
To: MooseMan
he hopes the oil companies, which are reporting record profits, would absorb the tax and not pass it on to the consumer. Sure!
Have him "hope" in one hand and sh&* in the other and see which one fills up faster
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posted on
06/07/2007 10:16:35 AM PDT
by
MooseMan
(Sarcasm included at no additional charge)
To: xcamel
ok, here we go. Carbon taxes and the emerging market in carbon credits and offsets are going to be the excuse to raise our taxes to pay for the alleged threat of global warming.
I’ve never understood the idea of carbon credits. Because it seems like it means that you can buy a carbon credit and absolve yourself of the need to cut back your own carbon consumption. It seems like a racket to me.
To: MooseMan
Few will notice. Everyone with any sense of sanity or reason who could get away fled Quebec 30 years ago.
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posted on
06/07/2007 10:18:12 AM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(When toilet paper is a luxury, you have achieved communism.)
To: MooseMan
Speaking French must preclude the ability to have entirely rational thought.
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posted on
06/07/2007 10:18:57 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Islam is the religion of violins, NOT peas.)
To: MooseMan
"the polluter pays"
The "polluter" is not the oil company, but the person driving the car. More demagoguery against "big oil." If they hate the oil companies so much, they should just ban oil, and see where that gets them.
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posted on
06/07/2007 10:19:10 AM PDT
by
Steve_Seattle
("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
To: Dilbert San Diego
Carbon credits sound a lot like the cap-and-trade policies that the Left hated when Bush proposed using them to regulate air pollution.
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posted on
06/07/2007 10:20:53 AM PDT
by
Steve_Seattle
("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
To: Dilbert San Diego
I have some carbon credits to sell you. I have two turbo Diesel cars that replaced two minivans that replaced a Suburban and Econoline. So the way I figure they figure, I have two sets of credits to sell. The difference between the mpg of the Diesels against not driving the minivans and the difference between the Diesels and not driving the full size trucks (station wagons or SUVs - you decide).
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posted on
06/07/2007 10:25:08 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Islam is the religion of violins, NOT peas.)
To: MooseMan
I wonder if oil companies can reduce their tax by growing tree farms.
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posted on
06/07/2007 10:27:46 AM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: MooseMan
“he hopes the oil companies, which are reporting record profits, would absorb the tax and not pass it on to the consumer.”
Bechard missed that part of Economics 101 where students learn that all taxes are passed onto the consumer.
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posted on
06/07/2007 10:28:10 AM PDT
by
lilylangtree
(Veni, Vidi, Vici)
To: MooseMan
Quebecers will be distinct from other Canadians in another way starting this fall: they'll have the country's first designated "carbon tax" to help fight global warming.GOOD! I HOPE THEY LIKE IT TOO! CHOKE ON YOUR CARBON TAX CANADA! CHOKE ON IT!
Can you tell this subject ticks me off? LOL
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posted on
06/07/2007 10:28:50 AM PDT
by
chaos_5
(1-800-882-2005 Amnesty Hot-line!)
To: MooseMan
The Taxman Cometh
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posted on
06/07/2007 10:29:48 AM PDT
by
sr4402
To: chaos_5
Why so angry?
Es tu Quebecois?
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posted on
06/07/2007 10:31:31 AM PDT
by
MooseMan
(Sarcasm included at no additional charge)
To: MooseMan
Like they won’t use the “carbon tax” for mad money.
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posted on
06/07/2007 10:33:52 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder." --Frederic Bastiat)
To: MooseMan
This is what they were aiming for in the first place. All this garbage about carbon credits was to make the way for a tax. The left wants to destroy business and industry.
To: MooseMan
I bet not one “red” cent of this tax ever goes to stop glowbull warming........
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posted on
06/07/2007 10:40:27 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Bite your tongue. It tastes a lot better than crow................)
To: MooseMan
The sheer stupidity of these people is simply amazing:
The tax, Bechard said, is based on the "polluter pays" principle. "That is not negotiable," the minister said.
he hopes the oil companies, which are reporting record profits, would absorb the tax and not pass it on to the consumer.
But it is the consumer of energy, not the producer, who pollutes.
In one statement that minister managed to by stupid and anti-corporate at the same time. This is the quality of the government that socialists always end up with.
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posted on
06/07/2007 10:47:10 AM PDT
by
TopQuark
To: Dilbert San Diego
Ever hear of “Window Insurance?”
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posted on
06/07/2007 10:49:23 AM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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