On June 19, Stephan Dion released the Liberal Carbon Tax plan for Canada.
Officially, Mark Eyking is on record as fully supporting the Liberal tax plan, but in the June 20th edition of the Cape Breton Post admits that the Liberals are "quite honestly nervous about how this will affect people". Many readers of the Cape Breton Post responded quickly online.
From July 9, Cape Breton Post Online
"Liberal Leader Stephane Dion’s addition of a carbon tax on fuels will be the coup de grace. I suppose he figures one way to eliminate poverty is to kill off all the poor people. Dion, like others who are bunkered in the safety net of Ottawa bureaucracy, has no interest in the plight of poorer Canadians."
From July 2, Cape Breton Post Online
"What about the administration costs? The system is admittedly complicated so we will need additional civil servants and they don’t come cheap. How can the tax be 'revenue neutral' and still cover the cost? Frankly, I foresee a huge boost in inflation."
"It's a ploy for the next election so he can say the Conservatives do not care about the environment. Not the smartest of plans but hey he is a Liberal."
"This is the most ridiculous thing Canada's thought of in a long time. "
"As Cape Bretoners ,we have seen the effects of govt. central planning on our island and I for one don't want to be another statistical footnote, just so much collateral damage in some politicians master plan. I don't have an answer but I think we need a better plan than the one the Liberals are proposing."
From June 26, Natalie Fraser, Cape Breton Post Online Columnist
"While we all need to make significant life changes to stop the irreparable harm we are doing to the environment, a plan by any political party that may cause huge taxes for voters is not the way to go.“Green” thinking does not always come first for the working poor single-parents, college students and elderly in the province who struggle to pay their heating bills as they are now."
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From June 23, Cape Breton Post Online
"Listen to Eyking..he is conceding that this plan is going to mean disaster for Cape Bretoners, and he still won't stand up to his boss Dion."
"No goals, no dates to curb these CO2 limits. What a great visionary leader."
"This is going to hurt a lot of people. "
"Dion and the Liberals want us poor/regular people stuck in our houses with the heat down and the TV off. "
"Dion and his gang of revenue neutralists will determine who the economic winners and losers among taxpayers will be. Who gets credit for their carbon tax and who doesn't. "
"So he's going to tax companies that make gas thus making our prices MUCH, MUCH higher at the pump."
"Dion is effectively hanging his MP's outside vote rich Ontario out to dry. "
From June 23 National Post Online
"As part of a massive, election campaign-style push, the party has posted ads across the Internet, including YouTube and its own official site. The commercials provide few policy details, opting instead to interweave shots of Mr. Dion with images of mountain lakes, tree frogs and polar bears."
"the plan's math does not seem to add up in respect of the tax neutrality promise. Only $9-billion of the $15-billion in carbon tax revenues are planned to go back to all Canadians and business through comprehensive tax relief."
From June 22 Chronicle Herald Online
"Dalhousie University professor Larry Hughes believes that, whatever the environmental merits of a carbon tax, the average Bluenose could end up paying through the nose. He says Mr. Dion’s hefty surcharge on coal-fired power could easily drive bills up by $500 a year for electricity use alone. As for the energy-intensive pulp and paper industry, he says it would likely pack up and leave the province."
From June 21 Cape Breton Post Online
"WOW what a wammy for the working class again."
"TAX, TAX, TAX! The Liberals are nuts!"
" Carbon Tax? Don't we have that on gas and home heating oil now?"
"Get lost Liberals, we don't need any more taxes."
"The plan could backfire if the emitters raise the cost of there products and pass it back to the consumer. "
"This is the dumbest idea I've ever heard."
"Oil is at $1.35 which is a huge inducement to get people to conserve oil. We don't need any other inducement to get people to conserve oil."
"Dion is way out of touch with the Canadian people and our lives."
"This will be paid for by hard working Canadians."
"Industries don't absorb taxes they pass them onto consumers in the form of higher prices."
"Dion's Carbon Tax will throw this country into a deep recession."
"The middle class will pay the most for this and disposable income will go way down."
"If Stephan Dion ever wins the next election, you can kiss goodbye to any Donkin coal mine opening up."
"As far as us getting any monies back through income tax, he's full of it."
"The NDP and the Green party don't have the guts to tax us like the liberals. "
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Cape Bretoners Responds to Dion's Tax Grab
