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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All
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To: Lino... who wrote (509)11/29/2000 1:17:02 AM
From: marcos  Read Replies (4) of 37571
 
A carbon tax could make a lot of sense in some ways ... assuming that you're going to be raising some taxes under any party or system, the question becomes how you raise them ... income tax penalises incentive, consumption taxes motivate behaviour toward a net increase of capital.

There are also the costs over and above the finding/production/profit costs, i.e. pollution in the cities, the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, etc ... nothing in the pricing reflects these at the moment ... they're not easily quantifiable but clearly they exceed the current zero.

This question doesn't need to have anything to do with perceptions of the political spectrum, imho ... though of course wings of it will tend to pounce with packaged answers.
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