No Business Should Cheer a Carbon Tax

The outrage against Telus’ support for the carbon tax on social media was swift, as angry customers were threatening to leave the company for its competitors. The new carbon tax is estimated to cost the average Canadian family $1,250 in the first year, and go up from there. In Alberta, the center of oil production in Canada, where the economy has suffered the most from the low prices and where unemployment is high, Telus’ carbon tax cheering tweet was considered particularly callous.

Who pays the carbon tax?

Tax the oil and power companies, and the businesses and families that use gas or electricity will pay that tax. The businesses pass it on to their customers, so middle class families pay in the end.

Tax truckers and in the end the people who buy everything they transport pay the tax. Again, that’s middle class families in the end.

The same is true for taxing “the rich”. If we tax my doctor more on his income, he will raise his rates, as will the other doctors. I’ll pay more to see him, or my insurance company will pay more - and they will raise my rates. If your employer pays for your medical insurance and the rates go up, you get a smaller raise. In the end, all taxes are paid by the middle class.

Liberals like to pretend otherwise and act like they are just taxing “the other guy” especially “the rich”. In the real world, that is a lie so they can gather and control more money. It’s all a power grab, and they motivate their followers using envy. They know it’s false, and they hope democrat voters don’t figure it out.

Taxes are the use of force to take money from one disfavored group and give that money to a favored group. The biggest cheat of all is government paying for a “free” college education. In the end, that government subsidy of higher education is a wealth transfer from working people who don’t go to college to people who do go to college. Should my plumber really be forced to pay for a man-child’s major in gender studies? My handyman earned that money, and those going to college should choose their major wisely so that they can get a return on their investment of time and money. The best guarantee that they will choose wisely is to make them use their own money and not mine, not my electrician’s money.

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