The Green Shift is simple, very simple

I have been hearing on TV, and reading on-line a variety of people saying that the Green Shift is complicated and is difficult to explain to Canadians.  I do not think that the Green Shift plan could be any more simple.  Canadians are going to have to pay higher taxes on energy that has high carbon dioxide emissions, and they are going to get tax cuts on their income taxes.  Tax emissions, reward things like earning.  If you want to do well under the Green Shift system simply consume less energy.  It is absolutely necessary to being punishing people, and businesses for using massive amounts of energy, and to reward people for reducing their energy consumption.

Michael Ignatieff was quoted as saying he can easily sell this plan to Canadians; tax what you burn, not what you earn.  It is really that simple, if you want it to be.