[yongjik]

What I'm saying is, people will still complain when the "ruling class" try to drive the progress because it does not conform to their worldview.

Like, Canada once tried to implement carbon tax, which was even revenue-neutral. If you're a Canadian and you emitted less CO2 than others the government will literally give you money.

It was widely unpopular and the plan was scrapped in 2025.

A lot of people think "billionaires are at fault" means "we just get rid of the billionaires and everything will become better, if it doesn't then the billionaires are still at fault." They don't want progress, they want someone to blame.

[21asdffdsa12]

We ran that experiment: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot

The billionaires are just the line cooks handing out what comes in from the market- and the market aka a globe eaten by people is slim pickings.

[Timon3]

Every time I've seen such taxes proposed or implemented, it seems to be followed by waves of misinformation washing through most media outlets. Even verifiable lies keep being repeated, and are slowly picked up by broad strokes of the population.

Is there a chance that something similar happened in Canada?