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Re:The $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no ... by david-gpu on Friday April 25, 2025 @09:47PM (#43800189)
Broadly agreed. IMO the Canadian carbon tax had a marketing problem. It should have been called a Carbon Dividend. First, it would have replaced the negative connotation of the word "tax" with the positive connotation of the word "dividend -- and it would have been more accurate to how the program actually worked.

Second, and probably more important: the rebates showed up in your bank account with a description that didn't make the source obvious enough for laypeople. Had people seen monthly "CARBON DIVIDEND" credits in their bank accounts, they would have noticed.

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Re:The $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no ... by shawnz on Saturday April 26, 2025 @12:10AM (#43800872)
In official communications it was called the Canada Carbon Rebate or previously the Climate Action Incentive
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Re:The $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no ... by david-gpu on Sunday April 27, 2025 @04:56PM (#43815073)
Both of which were terrible marketing wise.
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Re:The $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no ... by shawnz on Monday April 28, 2025 @02:40PM (#43824558)
What makes "rebate" terrible but "dividend" good? They accomplish the same thing in my mind. In fact I think calling it a "dividend" would be a pretty unconventional and contrived usage of that word.
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Re:The $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no ... by david-gpu on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @07:28AM (#43831098)
Rebate: focuses attention on the tax. Dividend: focuses attention on the income people receive.

Never heard of the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend? Except that one enshrines CO2 emissions instead of curbing them.

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Re:The $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no ... by smnrchrds on Saturday April 26, 2025 @01:35AM (#43801192)
It was never called carbon tax, but carbon pricing. It being knows as carbon tax was the result of of opposition efforts. The same efforts and results would have happened had it been called dividend or anything else.
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Re:The $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no ... by AntiEgo on Monday April 28, 2025 @12:44PM (#43823398)
The feds had it labeled, "Canada Carbon Rebate", and to even get that they had to fight the banks.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carbon-pricing-rebates-land...

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