@SonofaGeorge Because he doesn't represent the struggling people who are beneficiaries of the tax, and need it.
As an example, I just saw a post from Justin Trudeau about providing school lunch programs. A bunch of trolls immediately jumped in claiming, "If you axe the carbon tax then we can afford to feed our own kids!"
Not ONE single parent who can't afford to feed their children is paying for Carbon Tax rather than getting much more in rebates than they will ever pay into it. That's a fact.
@SonofaGeorge As parents struggling to feed, clothe, and shelter 3 children while being underpaid and underemployed, I really need these fucking elitest trolls to stop pretending to be one of us, while they fight to take away any little bit of extra income we manage to get from government rebates.
Here's another example of the disinformation. I had somebody tell me that we're all idiots for thinking we get more back in rebates than we pay into carbon tax, because apparently she got a $100 rebate on carbon tax and paid $300 in carbon tax for her propane.
So let's break that down... First of all, there are no $100 rebates. The only way she could receive that is to file separately from a partner, and they got $225 in a quarter while she got $112.50. That's $335, not $100. /1
@SonofaGeorge Next, let's look at her claim that she paid $300 in carbon tax for her propane. Propane is charged at 7.74 cents/litre (and really the gas company should be paying that, not her, but let's run with that idea of how it works, for now). So she's claiming to use a whopping 3,876 litres of propane every 3 months!! That's 1,292 litres a month, or FIFTEEN 100 lbs tanks! :o
Yeah, I don't think she's struggling if what she says is true.
More likely, these numbers are pulled out of a hat.
@SonofaGeorge Conversely, the average family of four in Alberta gets $1,800 back in carbon tax rebate annually. That's a real figure, not made up. Because those of us who want to (and NEED to) keep getting carbon tax rebates don't need to make up numbers to support our case.
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