And it rocks!
Every once and a while, I need to be reminded of why I joined the Liberal Party in the first place. This is one of those times where I am reinspired and reinvigorated. Good policy can be sold to anybody, and it looks like the plan to sell this is working well. Between the disaster the Tories had with Oily the Splotch, and the hope-inspiring music and rhetoric that we are using to sell this, combined with the fact that there is no tax on gasoline, makes this a juggernaut of a policy.
I like the clapping hands ad. All I can say about it is that Bob Rae looks ‘a little’ nerdy in it, but what can you do.
Can we sell it? Yes. Will it be sold? That depends on our hard work. WE can make this happen – we can get lower taxes for Canadians, and improve the disasterous record this current governemnt has on the environment. It will be good for the planet, and good for the wallet.
Do Canadians want real action on Climate Change? Yes. But that action cannot come in massive governemnt programs. By manipulating the markets rather than supplanting them, we are unleashing the marketplace of ideas upon this problem – the free market will triumph here, as it has in developing cures for deadly diseases and improving our lives with the numerous technological marvels we have at our fingertips every day. By forcing us into demanding with our wallets the change we know in our heads to be neccecary, this plan will do more for the environment than governemnt program ever could.
My income tax will go down $325. And my heating bill will rise by $450.
Yep . . . looks like a great policy to me.
Then add all the other consumer goods that will be taxed and I’m lucky if I don’t pay more than $2000. a year more. Only Liberals can spin this to make it look like a good deal. And what’s all this for?
To lower our 3% contribution to the world’s greenhouse gases.
Can you say gun registry all over again?????
I,love the plan,and the ad too!I have been hearing that people would really like to purchase and wear the Dion Green ,ball hats!Could be a great fund raiser,and spread the Green Shift word,as people wear them all summer!
Bud – suck another litre of gas up your a*s. You will feel better in the morning
“I got the Shifts” . . . .
That answers all my questions. Have another drink of Dion Cool-Aid.
“And my heating bill will rise by $450.”
Brought to you from the department of pulling numbers out their ass.
GFM . . . Here is a portion taken right off of Dion’s document.
The average heating costs for homes that use oil are expected to rise by $203 per year. Homes using natural gas could see an average annual increase of $266.
That’s an average. If I live in a large home it could go up by $450.
Stick that up your ass.
If you live in a large home, you use more energy than someone who lives in a small home. We are trying to cause you to think about what is going to cost you more, and make you decide if it’s worth it to pay more to live in an inefficient place. It is your choice, but now you get to pay for it, and your money will go to someone who made greener choices than you.
The fact that you know what the cause is going to be, and have decided that there will be an effect (you not moving, but paying more), shows that the principle of the carbon tax works.