Thursday, April 1, 2010

Halifax - Gas tax dodge

Sin taxes on driving, meant to be spent on green iniatives, are instead going to build more roads.

Carbon pricing at its simplest: you drive, you pay a tax on your gas. Call it an environmental sin tax. The federal Gas Tax Fund is distributed to the provinces, which pass it on to municipalities for green infrastructure like public transit, sewage treatment, sidewalks and "local roads and bridges."

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