I think it’s just how policy is written which hurts the lower income areas

Good idea but how do you keep the government from gradually chipping away at the money coming in from the tax? How much more will it cost the government to track consumption, evaluate the appropriate distribution and send out the payments (Which will be a good excuse for governments to reduce the payouts)? Lastly, what about the tax that the petrol company, the transportation company, the station owner all pay for their own emissions that they will pass on to the final consumer?

The carbon tax is and will be a hinder to economic growth. A country that competes on a world stage loses any edge it might have. Any notion the government will send you money is a dream. The cost of any product like food is already moving rapidly upward. Countries that buy from us will just get the raw product and process it themselves.

Or invest the tax in services which replace the carbon intensive ones.

If you're going to add crappy music to your videos please add subtitles too so I can mute it

But people like pay more tax. It reduces their guilt even without adding benefit from other sources.

Or come up with alternative option in budgeted way

La croix is gonna get soooo expensive

so if you dont use the government run public transport it is basically a fine for having your own transport.

OR - why not just quit subsidizing oil companies ? Water based fuels are cheaper then

The tax should be invested in renewable energy generation and carbon capture and storage system, instead of paying people to use more fossil fuel to enjoy their lives.

Get rid of income taxes and goods and services taxes.They are taxing having a job and stagnating the economy. The wealthiest aren't paying their fair share (if any) anyway. Replace the loss of tax revenue with price per ton on Carbon emissions right at the biggest sources. If you make some small changes or investments in your life you'll save money easier. If you have money to blow and you want to drive a Dodge Viper to work everday thats fine but you'll have to pay for that.

Please drop the unnecessary music. We're grownups.

But if there will be "carbon paycheck" people will receive every month, won't that also encourage them to keep carbon? 😅

If u see the per capita emission of co2 during the developing stages of developed country they have polluted so much and now they concerned about the environment by taxing on the developing countries items which emits pollution

This reflects the process Canada uses

I wonder if the haze in China is caused by the coal BC ships to them

There should be a war tax and given to the people!!

5 mins, can be said in a single word. 'Slavery'

Unfortunately again, the industries which contribute the most to the problem get penalized the least. Also, a poor family receiving a carbon reduction rebate is unlikely to change consuming habits. Government must account for more industry responsibility.

I'm guessing that there are high amount of dislikes for this video because people have opposing opinions? I thought the quality of the vid was great. I don't understand why people are so against the inevitability of electric motors dominating the transport sector, hell, even if you don't like the fact that in the future there wont be a market for exhausts which enables your Micra to sound like a Harley motorcycle, do yourself and your family a favour and embrace the future and see the prospective returns you could make from investing in some of the potential market leading Blue-chips. One more thing, have you seen Zero Motorcycles? The future baby; I cant wait.

Canada does this method and it works

How about a carbon tax, that can charge you dollar for breathing out carbon. That would be a fair option.

Where is that extra $125 will come from ?

Either I'm missing something or this idea is incredibly stupid. The whole point of a carbon tax is to squeeze people enough that they emit less carbon. If you then give them the money back, they would be able to maintain the same standard of living as before. It's almost like you're loaning money to the government at the petrol station before getting it back at the end of the month and I wonder how many bureaucrats that will cost...

all our carbon taxes in canada go to general revue

Governments will never not grab that money. Even in the utopian example here....matter of tome before those with the means use much less carbon, companies create zero carbon goods...the poor family still needs the same stuff from the start...then what?

So if every low income house that has oil heating and diesel cars end up receiving more than they pay on carbon tax explain to me where does the extra money they received comes from? Does it come from the families that are efficient and will not pay carbon tax? It doesn’t make sense logically nor financially

So house hold expenses would go up 70 euros but low income families would get over a 100 euros back? Sounds like in order for low income families to get 100 euros back, taxes on everything would have to rise dramatically. So even though the low income family fuel prices would be off set by someone else, the price of everything else they buy would increase.

We should get carbon tax in the U.S. It would help the world, and stop global warming.

France: 70% nuclear, 18% hydro and a country with one of the lowest carbon footprints. Has just been fined 500 million for not meeting CO2 emissions standards. Good luck the rest of you.

but... the lower income family is technically making money for emitting carbon in Frances system. It desensitizes a change in the status qou.

This might be a stupid question but wouldn't the incentive to emit less disappear when poorer households receive more through the "carbon cheque" (at least for poorer households)? Applying this on a global scale, and given the rates of poverty that currently exist, this could be a massive blow.

So, you’re Re-distributing wealth.... without calling it that.

What's that saying? Oh yea. I Will Not Comply !

So you will add more middle class people to the movement against these taxes. Not all middle class people are hysterical.

increase carbon tax but decrease income tax

NO ONE IS TELLING YOU THIS TAX HAS NOT REDUCED CARBON ONE BIT.

No. We don't have to cut carbon emissions.

Pay my transportation, my food, my housing.... all of my expenses, on time at any amount I will ask you to pay me. Also pay my vacation in cheaper 3rd world countries of my choice.... and I swear I will switch to whatever energy you want me too.

wow, thank you for this video. I really like the content. It helps me so much for my report. -college student here. ^^

The end result is always more money and more power to the government.

In Australia when we implemented the carbon tax we reduced taxes for the poorest substantially. This didn't prevent them from buying the right-wing's argument that climate action was costing living standards. Sure enough, the right came back into power, repealed the carbon tax and have overseen six years of climate vandalism. We must dispense with the idea of a carbon tax altogether; it's framing of living standards vs climate action cannot be shaken away even by rebates. We must adopt the approach of a Green New Deal that taxes the wealthy to fund clime action. More importantly, only the government, not market mechanisms, can provide the rapid change we need.

Holy awful pie charts, batman!

Maybe for the amount of liters/gallons of gasoline people put in their car each month, they should be taxed.

I'm from Syria, don't work, have 9 kids, and drive a sooyside car. How big is my check ?

I hate this because I don’t want money being taken from me, but I don’t see another way to get the ball rolling. Subsidies for zero emissions vehicles can be paid for with carbon emissions tax. Once the ball gets rolling and EV’s become more mainstream, affordable, etc., people will naturally phase out their gas vehicles for EVs. Those that want to hold on to their gas cars can, but they will pay the carbon tax. I’ll go kicking and screaming, but if it helps our world be cleaner, I’m all in.

Reaction to video ATTV, how can imposing a tax on carbon reduce carbon emissions? ATTV, why would low-income groups (poor people) be disproportionately impacted by a carbon tax? What would the difference in impact of a carbon tax be on high-income urban residents and low-income rural residents? (Urbans ➡️ can take public transpo, rurals ➡️ can't take public transpo, unable to afford fuel efficient cars) ATT suggestion made in the video, would the carbon tax revenue be kept by the government? (No) ATTV, how can the imposition of a carbon tax be designed such that low-income groups won't be affected as much? What would happen to it? (Returned to the people to alleviate the regressive effects. Rurals will receive a check that's worth more than the carbon tax they've paid) Do you think this could work in your country? Why or why not? What other measures can the govt take to help low-income rural residents who have no option for public transpo, yet can't afford more environmentally friendly cars?

A lot of energy goes to bringing light in to the darkness. 90% of the energy used for this is waisted, only 10% goes to light. The new LED lights have no waist. If we make switching to ledlights cheaper, how much CO2 do we reduce, a lot I think. Why isn't this being done?

Complicated issue, maybe we should ask an hysterical teenager to sort it out.

Pie-in-the sky idea 💡. Currency must be exchanged for labor/value and time. This is the bedrock of how ever economy functions. Giving the poor or less fortunate a currency for alternative energy is a pie-in-the-sky idea. Here’s a better one Cut taxes for all. Cut taxes for investors looking to purchase and update properties to be more energy efficient. Cut taxes for businesses that use less carbon energy. Cut for the middle class that invest in updating their homes and vehicles to more energy efficient vehicles. Incentivize builders and contractors who build low income energy efficient homes. If we just give the middle class and poor stimulus check for no exchange in services; we run into inflation, crime goes up; and the divide between the rich and the poor increases.

Excellent video, thanks Martin. From comments so far there are concerns about how this works long term when most poor and middle incomes are better off. So explaining the long term impact of predictable rising Carbon Tax over time on industry and citizens is important. Particularly in the reduced need to subsidise Green alternatives. Great work, Thanks.

Tax THE trees for burning, shame on them...

Carbon is a god thing, it should not be limited. all living things are made of carbon.

There's a HUGE bug in this ointment. Taxes exist to deprive others of money, any excuse will do. To make a tax ethical, requires those imposing the the tax have ethics. Ethical and tax are an oxymoron, these words simply can't exist in the same sentence. A very few are going to win at the expense of many more people losing. Taxing Global Warming is absolutely ludicrous. Moronic at best!

France carbon emissions versus China's or Latin American countries is ridiculously insignificant. Instead of taxing your citizens ,focus on the biggest polluters in the world. The problem is countries like France and Canada love to virtue signal but don't have the guts or backbone to pose sanctions or trade conditions with polluting countries

So I should;d be tax exempt, or even get a payment.......as I have acres of trees cleaning carbon from the atmosphere...

This video creator should hide in shame for.this propaganda.

Not an easy thing to do, and we must still be able to move around, otherwise, why even be alive?

Carbon tax another tax the poor scheme. Only benefits the wealthy who are involved in carbon trading.

Carbon taxes do nothing to reduce GHG emissions.In fact in most countries that have a carbon tax GHG emissions have increased not decreased. The reason for carbon taxes is the second word "tax". Carbon taxes are a sneaky way to introduce a new tax. Carbon taxes are an inflationary tax as it will increase the price of literally everything you need to buy. Companies will pass along their increased costs to consumers ,they always do.Governments will rake in money as they will collect more GST taxes on inflated goods and services. Yes some money is given back but much of it is kept by governments and they have no intention of rebating the GST portion of the tax to consumers. This is the big scam by governments that impose carbon "taxes".Carbon taxes start low but constantly increase .The GDP of those countries will drop ,jobs will be lost and the people will be poorer.Many countries like the US,China,India will prosper as they will not impose carbon taxes. If people are smart they will vote out government parties that impose or want to impose carbon taxes.

Carbon tax is theft and punishment for the Canadian citizens for living ordinary lives.

The thing is, hardly any money goes back to the consumer or business. It does go into politicians pockets though.

Review 3 years ago youtube. Current climate of past one-year(2022 itself) Economies of scale = mass production of electricity = transmission losses of wide and large electrical grid (economies of losses) = devices and component sizes-gauge(pricing graphing of cost-efficiencies) = training of maintenance workers (maintenance-costs, running-costs) = infrastructure for self-sufficiency in disaster == strategic - manufacturing and pricing and costing and training and schooling and using and ... = power conversion losses from high-tension to 3-phase to 1-phase = recycling costs for waste from production = efficiencies of smaller new recycling-conservation of energy by having sewage-processing, electrical-generation, potable-water production, fuel-storage and transportation, sea-river logistics, fire-fighting equipment, ... synergy in 3 main subsets in terms of conservation-recycling of energy and shorter distances of pipes... Calculate maximum size for lowest-cost, cheapest self-sufficiency before types of losses make the carbon-tax formulae look good. Reduce from baseline of robbers'-calculations

Haarp

It's not carbon they want to control, its energy and people they want to control.

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Why take my tax money and then return it to me don't make sense unless the carbon tax is invested and we the less wealthy don't get the money made from the investment the rich do or the government does

Good idea could be implemented only if everyone had stable jobs or it’ll be pain if the income kept changing every month

Remember Canada, even if they hit net0 ,that only affects 2% of the so called co2

Meanwhile the billionaire and politicians fly around preaching to us to lower our carbon foot print.

So the poor will be able to emit even more CO2... hmmm

Carbon taxes and other solutions to control carbon emissions are just ways to play around with the problem. The root problem is global population growth. Europe will find it harder to reduce carbon emission, even if they pay taxes and become more efficient, increasing populations will result in more emissions. And what do rural dwellers do? Driving cars is not so much a luxury for them as a necessity, which is not the case for city dwellers, who can use public transport more. Reduce the global population and a lot of our planet's problems will reduce or go away altogether. Carbon taxes simply provide more loot for wasteful socialist politicians to waste on their voters. People who pay little or no taxes at all are usually socialist voters. People who work, invest, and pay the most taxes usually protect their wealth by voting for common sense parties.

Carbon is not a problem…stop the lies.

Stay out of my pocket how about that?

So pay the biggest carbon offenders more to make them buy Into a carbon tax? I am not trying to start a fight or be sarcastic, I am asking to make sure I understand this.

Terrible idea

This comment section is trash.

Biggest cash grab scam in history.

"Saving Climate" makes everything more expensive, starving to death or saving Polar Bears. If your want reduce emissions - make food and housing cheaper. If you can't do that, then shut up and get a different job.

agenda 21

Not going to work. Dumb idea anyway. I think we let it go too long. I mean they have been talking about this since I was a little kid. Hard to have sympathy when we had a lifetime to fix it.

How about those billionaires that live in those big carbon mansions and riding in those big carbon jets 😳 Selling you the noncarbon junk 😉

I see carbon tax as a solid idea but don{t like the whole socialistic type vibe of redistributing the tax let alone giving a family more than they spent.

Step one. Company taxed for carbon. Step two. Company raises power prices Step three. People compensated for increasing power prices. Step four. the money taxed ends up back in the power company’s hands. So in the end the carbon tax was for nothing and money gets pushed around with a few lazy people taking some of the top. Haha haha 😂 😂 try again mate. Carbon tax is good but yes it will effect the poor

The carbon check would immediately be spent on consumption of imported goods, further worsening the trade balance and eventually, the environment as it would be thrown away 6 months after purchase. This is not a good idea.

"... low-carbon economy that safeguards public health and sustainable energy sources." Yeah right. It's actually about government getting more revenue and power. And a dash of corruption in for flavoring.

why so many dislikes? big oil? lol

Farm, and Bussiness Killer!!!! Cost of living skyrockets, Monitory systems tanks, End Result Chaos!!!

Revolution incoming

Russian hackers are really excited about climate change

If you can't afford to fuel tractors end result no food, or food so expensive you can't afford it??? The results of Carbon tax!!!!

Since Trump was elected my taxes massively went down :) , they aint going to be happy until you are handing over every cent. look it up they are already talking about raising the carbon tax lol

Or rich can sacrifice a bit this time for a change because in the end it will effect them as well. You all still talking about eternal growth but it will cost the rich more in the end as their wealth ....

Marxism

So it’s only poor people who heat their houses using gas, and who drive diesel cars? What planet is this man on? The presumption is staggering.

This would diminish the middle class, I hope to see more yellow vests around Europe and the demise of Brussels....

Its called "summer" mate, temperatures are normally higher. Its not global warming.

And why are they pushing for carbon taxes when most things are made up of carbon.. Yes, even trees! Are trees made of carbon? "The chemical composition of trees varies from species to species but is approximately 50 percent carbon by dry weight. Other elements in trees include oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and smaller amounts of calcium, potassium, sodium, magnesium, iron, and manganese." Forest Carbon FAQs www.fs.usda.gov › default › files