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Hey Canadians proud American here. For some reason my guilty pleasure is watching the Canadian PMQ, Pollievre v Trudeau.

Don’t know much about Canada besides what they talk about.

How do you guys feel about the carbon taxes? Causing worthwhile economic damage?

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Lots of evidence that carbon taxes are net positive, haven't seen any thoughtful discourse on why they might be not?

It's a way to account for an externality that is normally unaccounted, which means everyone else is paying for it by default if not accounted.

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Basically unless you're the highest producers of carbon, you're getting more money back than you paid.

That's not how a carbon tax works. It makes everything cheaper, except for the highest carbon producers.

Right now highest producers are subsidized by everyone else. Carbon tax flips it: Highest producers pay their share, everyone else gets a rebate of more than they paid.

My point isn’t it’s not justified, but a carbon tax will make everything down stream more expensive. If you tax diesel for trucks, your food at the grocery store will cost more to accommodate.

Would you say the cost of living has gone up a lot compared to the official inflation numbers?