Meanwhile in BC, where we do not have a huge denial organization funded by big energy and right wing billionaires...
Since the tax was introduced in 2008, B.C.'s consumption of fossil fuels covered by the carbon tax has decreased by 19 per cent per capita compared to the rest of the country, according to Ottawa based think-tank Sustainable Prosperity. Meanwhile, B.C.'s economy outperformed most of Canada. During this time, B.C. attracted twice the national rate of investment in clean energy.
The clean energy sector grew by 48 per cent between 2008 and 2010, had $2.5 billion in sales in 2011, and now employs more than 8,400 British Columbians.
Even big business is ready to sign on. A report last week revealed that more than two dozen of the biggest corporations in the United States, including the five major oil companies, Wal-Mart and American Electric Power, are now preparing for government-mandated policies that will see them paying a price for carbon pollution as a way to control global warming.
In Ottawa last week, Shell Canada president Lorraine Mitchelmore called on the Canadian government to get serious about climate policy that includes a price on carbon.
http://www.vancouversun.com/business...565/story.html
Everybody benefits....The tax shift has enabled BC to have Canada’s lowest income tax rates (as of 2012).
The tax shift has benefited taxpayers; cuts to income and other taxes have exceeded carbon tax revenues by $500 million from 2008-12.
Sustainable Prosperity | BC
So the global warming deniers are wrong...Perhaps they should be the ones called "Alarmists", as they are constantly claiming that a carbon tax will destroy the economy and raise taxes..As you can see their alarmist rants about the above are totally without merit.
What say you deniers?