April 1

[blackpowder]

Everyone ready for:
Carbon tax increase.
Minimum wage increase.
Parliamentary wage increase.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Everyone ready for:
Carbon tax increase.
Minimum wage increase.
Parliamentary wage increase.

In a perfect world, would the minimum wage increase automatically take care of the parliamentarians wage increase?
Most of them are no more skilled than the average minimum wage earner. The prerequisites are actually lower to be a parliamentarian. The average minimum wage earner works a lot harder and probably longer.
Most minimum wage earners contribute a lot more to our GDP than most parasitical politicians.

[Hamloc]

Everyone ready for:
Carbon tax increase.
Minimum wage increase.
Parliamentary wage increase.

Black powder, talking to my local grain hauler, he gave me some interesting numbers. Keep in mind he mostly hauls locally. His truck’s computer puts fuels consumption at 64 litres/100 km. He says his truck does 80000 km/year. So simple math: 80000/100 x 64 = 51200 litres of diesel per year. Carbon tax payed 2023-2024: 51200 x .1738 carbon tax = $8898.56. After April 1 23% carbon tax increase, $10945.23. I have talked to his other drivers. They tend to put more kilometres on, around 125000 kms, so even more carbon tax. I asked him his opinion of the carbon tax, here is what he said: “The carbon tax is a punitive tax because it does not improve the efficiency of his truck or decrease the number of kilometres he drives. It is really just a wealth transfer program which takes money from a business like his and rebates it to consumers.”Couldn’t have said it better myself.

[furrowtickler]

Exactly Hamloc .
and yet the extreme supporters of carbon tax say it’s not contributing to overall inflation. They know it is , but blindly continue cheerleading while the very people delivering goods and services all throughout this country are getting financially slammed with zero results .
Same with local car wash guy here . He said he will need an extra 50 car washes per year now just to cover the carbon tax on his bills . So must charge more to offset…… just another small example of carbon tax inflation , and it’s across every business, industry and as you point out the entire trucking industry. All leads to inflation. And it will continue to escalate the longer Trudeau and his ex convict environment minister stay in power

[fjlip]

What a disgusting/almost criminal part of our democracy, NOWAY to stop laws/actions by elected people that HURT Canadians!

[blackpowder]

MPs give themselves pay raises each year on April 1, based on the average annual increase in union contracts with corporations that have more than 500 employees.
4.2% this year.
A backbench MP’s salary is currently $194,600. A minister collects $287,400, while the prime minister takes home a $389,200 annual salary.
Seems a balanced formula I suppose, but the optics are off this year. Easy peasy golden pension plan excluded.
Minimum wage has pros and cons.
Carbon tax an unbalanced, haphazard consumption tax.
How would it compare to GST going to 6%? Consider management costs of CT alone.
The dumb get dumber and 2 big bags of groceries already $300. High cost bags included.

[sumdumguy]

It should be called the, “Nuts Tax”.

[chuckChuck]

Increases in oil and gas and commodity prices because of market forces were a much much bigger cause of inflation in the last 3 years. Along with a return to more normal interest rates and a housing shortage.

[blackpowder]

That is whataboutism.

[WiltonRanch]

MPs give themselves pay raises each year on April 1, based on the average annual increase in union contracts with corporations that have more than 500 employees.
4.2% this year.
A backbench MP’s salary is currently $194,600. A minister collects $287,400, while the prime minister takes home a $389,200 annual salary.
Seems a balanced formula I suppose, but the optics are off this year. Easy peasy golden pension plan excluded.
Minimum wage has pros and cons.
Carbon tax an unbalanced, haphazard consumption tax.
How would it compare to GST going to 6%? Consider management costs of CT alone.
The dumb get dumber and 2 big bags of groceries already $300. High cost bags included.

Figured the worst thing Harper did was reduce the GST. Consumption tax at pos is the fairest most transparent form of taxation and probably the most cost effective to administer. Carbon tax increases the costs of business which is passed onto the consumer resulting in inflation. It’s a tax on existence and if it means the malthusians like Chuck want a population die off then why does the federal government keep encouraging more immigration? None of it seems to make sense if the end goal is to reduce emissions as more people means more but oh yeah per capita emissions goes down with more people. Yeah, that’s the math now but oh no we forgot to encourage housing startups but oh the cost of building housing is inflated partially due to carbon tax. It’s turned into a viscous cycle. Growth is good but can’t handle it if you’re trying to constrict economic drivers.