Say no to carbon tax
Re: A carbon tax and global warming.
The thought of a government- imposed carbon tax warms me up. Nobody knows what’s coming. No one has shown me a clear picture of what agriculture is facing in the future.
I heard a man on the radio say if we do everything right from now on it would lower the world temperature by .5 F in 85 years. Neither he, nor I, will be here to feel it.
When China is increasing its coal burning output annually more than our entire coal burning output, what does it matter what we do?
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Some talk like the carbon tax is our salvation. Or is it really a tax grab? It may be the salvation for well-placed scientist and bureaucrats and to lower a growing national debt.
If this is just a tax grab the federal government is spending money like a drunken snowboarder. Maybe they feel they are safe by having a carbon tax to fall back on.
Will a carbon tax give agriculture a glancing blow or a head on collision?
The worst scenario is we have a tax imposed on fuel, fertilizer, chemicals, electrical power, freight rates, trucking, costs involved in making and maintaining machinery and livestock.
When farmers seed their crops, they create a world of green that uses carbon and produces oxygen. Are we going to get a cheque in the mail? I’m for that.
Farmers are vulnerable now; we have no political power. We are less than two percent of the population. Everyone does believe we are the cash cow. We do have the power of the purse. The money we spend employs more than our numbers. Organizing that power is the thing to get people to back off.
Miles Moore
Outlook, Sask.
