No doubt your postcard from the Trudeau Liberals has arrived, that fancy-dancy mail-out telling you how terrific their carbon tax is — likely the only tax in the world where more money comes back to you than is ever be taken away.
It’s almost as wondrous as that magical bean.
It’s one of those too-good-to-be-true miracle taxes imposed by the feds on four provinces, and soon on Alberta, too — Ontario, New Brunswick, Manitoba and Saskatchewan for now — because they were the only provinces that didn’t meet the deadline for their own climate action plan, and they were therefore punished by a federal tax that strangely rewards them with more money back than was paid in.
It’s the kind of tax, in fact, that should leave taxpayers begging for more, or the smarter set at least scrambling to Google that famous quotation about what usually happens when things seem too good to be true.
Some seven million of these postcards were mailed out by the environmentally-friendly Liberals to households in those four original provinces, the Liberals being so in tune with the planet’s ecosystem that they have even labeled the air we exhale as a “pollutant,” and have categorically stated that climate change is unquestionably the result of humankind’s negligence and has now reached the doomsday of a “climate emergency.”
Unfortunately, the Liberals first had to suffer the eco-embarrassment and shame of being told that the educational postcards they produced for $1 million were not printed on recycled paper.
Not only that, but National Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier had to sheepishly admit her government had not tracked the greenhouse gas estimates on the cards — questions that get asked when a government prides itself in eco-leadership and heckles the Opposition for being believers in junk science as well as pisse pauvre [piss poor] stewards of the environment.
The purpose of those millions of postcards was to remind everyone in those four negligent provinces to claim the “Climate Action Incentive” when filing their income taxes because there was a rebate up for grabs.
Depending on where you live, the rebate could be over $600 per household, and that kind of money will surely trump all those extra nickels per liter at the gas pumps.
That’s the Liberals’ story, and they’re sticking to it, despite holes in it the size of the largest pristine valleys in the Rocky Mountains.
According to the Canada Revenue Agency, there are a lot of believers of the Trudeau Liberals’ promise of a magical rebate that will mean more money coming back to them than was ever paid out in carbon-tax hits.
In fact, some 97% of eligible families who filed their taxes by May 21 have already claimed their promised rebate.
It seems too good to be true, yes, but who would dare question the CRA on why this isn’t a real tax but instead a groundless tax grab based on the Liberals spreading fear of a pending environmental apocalypse?
The CRA never knowingly lies, but the truth is our taxes come to Ottawa to be chewed up and die, and a magical bean exists only in a fairy tale.
There is nothing pretty in this, of course, except for the fact that the annual income-tax deadline coincides fairly closely with Ottawa’s Tulip Festival and the surprisingly large crowds it attracts after yet another long and ugly winter.
And then, of course, the billions of dandelions begin rising up because no spraying is allowed to quell their spread.
Sadly, there’s always a quid-pro-quo-in life and in taxes.
Read more at Toronto Sun
Here in BC, the current Premier, Johnny Horgan, raised his Carbon Tax to $45 and has cancelled what “rebate” there might have been at some point. He has also publicly stated his Horgan Carbon Tax has nothing to do with carbon or CO2 and is simply another tax that he puts into General Revenue. Provinces that Trudeau is punishing with his Trudeau Carbon Tax might get some form of tax credit, IF the actually pay taxes and IF they remember to apply for it on the tax return. Here in BC we get screwed by the NDP and Greens.
I sent Johnny two mails asking how much the BC Carbon Tax has reduced pollution in China and and India and of course get no reply. Why should I, I am just a taxpayer.
The carbon tax caper will be Mr. Dress Up’s swan song .
Well that and the fact he continues to run up $billions in debt
…. but not to worry he claims budgets balance themselves .
Another fairy tail from .
Canadian politics rarely aligns with the White House. Mulroney and Regan, Chretien and Clinton, that’s about it lately. We had a competent Prime Minister in Stephen Harper but Obama treated him like a pariah (Keystone XL, eg) Harper was defeated by the MSM and their pet, Mr. Sunny Ways.
It’s fun to watch liberal politicians sink, clinging to Climate Change and carbon taxes. How long before they stop underestimating the electorate?
So Trudeau has slapped a “carbon” tax on unsuspecting Canadians (and Canadiens). Since very few of our northern friends use any Carbon on a daily basis, hardly anyone in Canada should have to worry about paying. Of course, if the deluded premier thinks carbon dioxide is “carbon”, he probably thinks sodium chloride (salt) is sodium and H2O (water) is hydrogen. Dip-Wad sounds like a good word for him.
Canada needs a better PM then this Dip-Wad he is running the nation into the ground just like most all liberals do like Clinton and Obama