‘We all pay’

Dear Editor:

RE: ‘Not unreasonable,’ May 9.

Letter writer Helen Hansen states in her letter, “I don’t pay the (carbon) tax because I don’t have a motor vehicle.” Does she not understand that every aspect of our lives depends on motor vehicles and each and every one of them pays the tax, which is then passed on to the consumer, including the letter writer?

The farmers who produce the food pay the tax. The tax is passed on to the distributor, who delivers to the retailer and passes the cost to them. The retailer passes the tax to the consumer.

This happens in every aspect of our lives. We all pay the carbon tax whether we like it or not and it does nothing to “save the planet” as all the activities we perform are needed. We can not go to work, or not eat, or not heat our homes, or not turn the lights on.

Dushan Divjak,
Elora