Carbon tax on fertilizer

[furrowtickler]

Everyone’s carbon tax cost will be downloaded to primary producers .... every single thing we need to operate, let alone our living expenses. It will absolutely evaporate our disposable income to below zero .
Every thing we produce is shipped out one way or the other ... those costs will increase, every single input we need will increase, parts , service , fuel, seed , fert , herbicides, insecticide, everything will have the added cost .... and for Ralph Goodiepants to say farmers won’t pay is absolutely fukin ridiculous

[furrowtickler]

The carbon tax is simply a small price to pay towards the extinction debt. It's about time.

Well , your dead wrong there ... if this cabin tax kicks into full gear we are done in agriculture... period . No way to off set extra cost like every other industry in the world that can simply pass in the cost to someone else .. we will be fuked

[blackpowder]

Watching the county load gravel from a stockpile for spreading today. It occurred to me that this is a tax on everything but before other taxes.
I am now going to pay higher municipal taxes to pay for the increased cost due to carbon tax.

It then also occurred to me that our entire planets' civilization is based on hydrocarbon usage. Every industry on the planet relies on it. Every humans' needs are served by it.
But our foundational industries will pay more. Concrete, shipping, construction, lumber, steel.
So rather than a consumption tax like say the GST, our foundational and our basic engine industries will pay disproportionately more.
Not for a while yet I'm sure, those same industries in 2/3 of the world outside the "first" world.
Not to mention the population that lives outside major urban centers, (who take public transit and don't have need for automobiles. Or gravel roads to name a few).
Raising the GST and calling it what it is. Using it for the right things, health care and education for example, is one thing. This carbon scheme is quite another.
A politically friendly consumption tax but heavier on only part of the population. Selling well to those who have the least to lose (they believe).
Playing in to the UNs ideal to artificially morph the world's population into economic equality.
Sadly, equality does not exist in nature. And this scheme too, will eventually prove a disaster.

Can't find a good ending in history of fanatical support of a tax.
Will choking our economies lead to the scientific breakthroughs we desire??
Time will tell.
I'm certain most of the net revenue from this tax will go to general revenues not replacement energy R&D.
Unless of course, all the people behind this whole scam know something they aren't telling.

The carbon tax is simply a small price to pay towards the extinction debt. It's about time.

Good one furrow !

Your choice of Charlie Brown cartoon characters to express your point of view is an appropriate indicator of a lot of the level of thought and discussion on Agriville.

So, why waste your time on here ??

[chuckChuck]

Your choice of Charlie Brown cartoon characters to express your point of view is an appropriate indicator of a lot of the level of thought and discussion on Agriville.

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What is the price in Alberta propane?

Sorry was gas ..



From a discussion on the combine forum

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