Patrick Brown changes his mind..Carbon Tax

[Fisherman]

What a turncoat, all the money collected will never actually do anything for carbon emissions, nothing but a money grab and now he's in favour of it.

[Maximus44]

I don't want the tax either, but to his defence, he said it's coming whether we want it or not and he wants to make it revenue neutral by putting the money back into taxpayers (rather than what Wynne would do).

[trimmer21]

Anytime a politician uses a term like "revenue neutral" I see red flags come up. I'm not a big fan of "red" Tories.

[JBen]

Given
Ballooning Debt (let's forget the deficit)
lack of money for infrastructure or services.
Soaring cost and so much more....heck just baby boomers alone are going to result in, a lot more strain. On healthcare, on Pensions, on ABC..

800,000 people without GPs. If 1 GP can take 800 clients.
how many GPs do we need?

Do people really think we are going to get off unscathed?

The question isn't no new taxes, it's how are things fixed.
A lot of leaning on tax payers only, or some of this and some of that.

[JBen]

The biggest "problem" I have with Carbon Taxes, isn't so much it's going to hurt people already hurting. It's that it hits those who use/pollute the least, a lot more than it hits those who use/pollute the most.

rural vs cities (who also get subsidizes transit).

1 "farmer" who drives miles for A-Z
1 Urbanite who walks to the store/beer store/work or gets the TTC etc

[terrym]

Brown needs to get elected. Something Hudak and Tory seemed to miss before tabling controversial initiatives. The Libranos have that figured out, the right doesn't. Hopefully Brown is smarter. So far he seems OK. Time will tell though.

[Oddmott]

He's still hard against the ORPP and that's enough for me.