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Why does everyone always talk about increasing various forms of end user tax, instead of looking at more effective ways of spending my tax dollars. I’ll proudly be a NIMBY when it comes to additional taxation. Time to look at alternate forms of funding and reducing waste in current government spending, instead of feeding an insatiable spending appetite.
BC already has the highest provincial excise tax on gasoline and diesel.
The Carbon tax is a sham, According to B.C.'s Auditor-General, two-thirds of funds brokered by the Pacific Carbon Trust went to EnCana, the biggest gas company in Canada, and to the Nature Conservancy of Canada, an organization so powerful, it is practically untouchable.
No matter that both organizations were going to undertake their carbon projects anyway; they were glad to take the money, which came from schools and hospitals mandated to be carbon neutral. A cool million dollars from Vancouver and Surrey area schools alone.
Just another example; How can Washington State provide a ferry service similar to BC at a fraction of the cost. Washington State Ferries has fewer routes, fewer boats but actually carries more passengers and more vehicles than our ferry system does. Why isn’t our government at least looking at their model.
Increasing spending on transit isn’t the answer, we should be demanding stronger spending laws, stronger spending watchdogs and higher penalties for fraud spenders.
We need to find a ways of funding [transit] through existing taxes,including the possibility of dipping into the provincial government’s fuel tax.
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