In this context I can only see the Carbon Tax as class warfare, because with it only rich/city dwellers are able to reap benefits and feel good about their role ‘saving’ the environment, meanwhile sneering at/lecturing rural/working class people about how they’re dirty polluters, at the same time forcing them to carry the higher tax burden for these ‘green’ programs.
Even if you were in favour of less gun rights or wanted more, reasonable people reading the new ‘Assault-Style’ weapons ban should have some alarms going off because it’s seriously badly written, illogical on different levels, and is overall blatantly contradictory.
Solar should be shooting up if oil is truly dead as Elizabeth May says. Buying solar panels being viewed in the same way that getting new hardwood installed is telling of how the general public see solar as an energy source. It is just an expensive frill at the end of the day.
As the argument goes, you don’t need a firearm if you live in a city because police response times are much speedier. For years I believed this was a solid argument, but it fails to hold true during a widespread public crisis. This is what is happening during the Coronavirus pandemic, where civil order started to disintegrate in some cities and countries.
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