RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:Div hike or Debt reduction?I can't resist.
Your point #5 re: carbon taxes... If you truly beilive that 80% of people benefit from the carbon tax, well then I'm not sure we could ever be on the same wave length..
The carbon tax is built into every single widget you purchase as every hand that it touches in the chain is affected- I'm sure you know this, how can you agrue that it is a benefit?
I see it as a tax on the productive that is given to the unproductive. Long term it has the potential to destroy ANY incentive for growth or innovation.
A case in point: A few years ago in Alberta the NDP was elected around the same time I was building a large shop at my farm. The NDP insituted the carbon tax and even though I had installed a natural gas line to the building, I made a change to the design and purchased and installed a massive outdoor wood fired boiler. On a calm day fire stoked up nice, my whole valley I live is smoked up from that thing, literally some of the neighbours called concerned that my yard was on fire! Nice heat-- no carbon tax!
BUT if you think that is innovation your are wrong- it's not. It's ancient technology that produces way more "carbon" -way more. It's not my intention to pollute, my intention is to NOT freeze..