Green shift more a wealth shift

With each passing day, more and more people are wising up to what the Green Shaft is really about. The following is a great Letter to the Editor of the Kingston Whig Standard:

Green Shift more a wealth shift

The Green Shift is supposed to be about reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, yet most of the meeting was spent enticing people with talk about tax cuts and expanding wasteful entitlement programs that have done nothing in the past to reduce poverty.

Dion had no problem stating a specific target for reducing poverty by using the money raised from taxing everyone on everything they need every day, but where is the target for reducing carbon dioxide? Without knowing how much CO2 will be reduced, we can't know whether the benefit will be worth the pain of higher living expenses.

Dion has also indicated he's in favour of carbon taxes in the short term, and cap and trade in the medium to long term. Both measures have been applied in the European Union yet there has been a complete failure to meet Kyoto targets for CO2 emissions. As of 2004, European Union countries were 4.4 per cent above 1990 emission levels, and in 2006 emission levels increased a further 0.68 per cent.

With all the numbers included in the Liberal's Carbon Tax program, the one thing missing is exactly how much CO2 emissions will be reduced by implementing their plan. For $15.2 billion dollars in taxpayer's money, you think they could give us at least a ballpark figure. The fact that they can't or won't demonstrates that Carbon Tax plan is nothing more than a Liberal Tax and Spend program wrapped in nice green paper.