Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Green Taxes

Cap & Trade - Opens up new markets, loved by economists, not really understood or directly felt by the average joe.
Carbon Tax - Easy to administrate, loved by bureaucrats, hated by the average joe... more money at the pump.
Luxury Tax - Loved by the average joe... attach a price to guilty pleasures. Hated by bureaucrats.

This budget did one thing right... it put in place the tax program that was most palatable by the Canadian public. Its a marketers budget... thats for sure.

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