Global Warming - Another Reason to Increase Fuel Taxes
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007Why are ordinary citizens asked to pay more at the pumps? Why should people like you and me, who commute everyday to work in economical vehicles have to pay more at the pumps to save the planet? Look I agree that Global Warming is a concern but why tax everybody the same. Why not add an insurance tax where people with the big bucks, who decide to get that H3 Hummer or the Corvette that drink the fuel with no practical reason other than “Status”. These are the people that really need to pay. Imagine taxing a single mom with three kids an addtional .12 cents a liter when she is barely making it as it is. Tax on gas is not the solution. Taxing people for spending too much money on “Status” type vehicles makes way more sense. How many people who are driving those big Super Duty 4X4 pickups actually need them? I bet less than half of those vehicles are actually needed for more than just status.
So here is my vote… tax the people that can afford it. Tax the premium fuels, tax the big vehicles but stay away from the single mom or the family that is just squeaking by as it is.
Read the article here.
The Green party wants Canadian drivers to pay an extra 12 cents a litre at the gas pumps as the price of averting environmental “catastrophe.”
Leader Elizabeth May is boasting that her party is the only one politically brave enough to call for carbon taxes that would discourage automobile use and finance other tax cuts that would allow consumers to make smarter environmental choices.
“Right now, the Green Party of Canada is the only Canadian political party prepared to state this obvious reality,” May said yesterday. “We will use those carbon taxes to reduce taxes elsewhere.”
May rolled out her party’s environmental plan yesterday in part to coincide with the G-8 meeting starting today in Germany, where Canada’s action on this issue – or lack of it – is a major story.
The Green leader had harsh words for Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his announced intentions to be a “bridge” between countries that have signed on to the Kyoto air quality accord and the United States, which hasn’t.
“If we stop being with the rest of the world and start siding with George Bush, we are global saboteurs and that’s what Mr. Harper is doing right now in Germany,” May said.
