Coffee with Jordan Peterson: Carbon pricing hurts the poor? #jordanpeterson

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Fifteen Super-Profitable Industries are Driving Canadian Inflation (Centre for Future Work, 2022):

15 Super-Profitable Industries Fuel Canada’s Inflation (Jim Stanford, 2022):

With the federal budget looming, majority of Canadians want Big Oil slapped with a windfall tax (National Observer, 2024):

The 10 Global Biggest Industries by Revenue (IBIS World, 2024):

Oil and gas industry earned $4 trillion last year, says IEA chief (Reuters, 2023):

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How do people in Canada spend their money? (CIC News, 2023):

With federal budget looming, poll finds cross-Canada support for tax on Big Oil profits (David Suzuki Foundation, 2024):

Inflation driven by profits in few sectors, including oil and gas: report (Global News, 2022):

There's now a Bank of Canada number for carbon tax's impact on inflation. It's small (CBC, September 2023):

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[sumdood]

No, these taxes absolutely hurt the poor, because they make literally *everything* significantly more expensive.

Since wages have not risen to offset the growing cost of living, the actual purchasing power of the average Canadian has gone down.

QED: Peterson is right, and you're wrong.

[parkerberlin]

An energy tax of any kind hurts the poor! It's that simple. People are morons

[carloslemare]

Try to pay electric heating with minimal wage… even here in my country gas is too expensive for a middle high class, and we rely on “parafina” which is a derivative from the oil to burn it with parafina heaters inside our homes. Sure, you live in a developed country, but over here is much more expensive to us.

[lorzon]

How does it NOT hurt me to double the cost of getting to work or heating my home in the winter or keeping the lights on?

[masteroogway]

This is the craziest state propaganda I’ve seen in a while

[chrisallum]

ALL THREE OF YOUR CLAIMS ARE FALSE.
Carbon pricing adds more cost.
it "transfers wealth" less than the alternatives.
it is not revenue neutral.

[FirstLordFury]

Economists all know that raising energy prices via a tax will shrink the economy with a higher impact on manufacturing and distribution, but it does hurt everyone and knocks more people below the poverty line.

[shadowlicka]

How does it help the poor? Low Income Climate Action Tax Credit? If you are poor it still makes u have less money so even if it’s less less money it’s still making them more poor then they were before.

[jimmyjimmy]

So, you just put a few words on the screen and it's magically true?

Good job doing exactly nothing.

[Spurlockomedy]

Bro has got the entire comment section shitting on him

[KeyserFrost]

Carbon tax does NOT put more money in the hands of the poor. How?

[GreenNeighbour]

UPDATE: I’m awake, and I’m back it. Bring your questions, comments, and a mind that’s open to learning… and I’ll be happy to respond.

[Batbaneofjokes]

This guy isn’t serious right? How does carbon tax help the poor?

[toon]

Glad to see some folks with common sense. Jordan is way off on this one and his political bias is really shining through. Massive intellectual blindspots result from overly politicizing your views.

[homeless_snowboarder]

#4. Freedom truckers put more fuel in their personal vehicles than anyone else/more money to the prime minister who is invested in oil.

[offgridwanabe]

My gas is now free I only buy 1 tank a month but the rebate covers that.

[stevenolah]

I couldn't agree more.
But first, remove ALL subsidies and tax breaks for the oil companies...