Radio Station DUMB

They gotta have a plan!

Vincent J. Curtis

2 Apr 24

RE: Critics of carbon tax have no plan. Editorial. The Dog's Nest Dispatch 2 Apr 24.

The Dog’s Nest Dispatch resembles a radio station of call letters DUMB: all talk, no listen. The Dispatch has often, and for years, been reminded of Canada’s tiny contribution to world CO2 emissions: 1.5 percent; and of Asia’s: greater than 60 percent, and growing. The Dispatch has also been told repeatedly that the carbon tax, being a tax on an inelastic demand, simply won’t reduce carbon dioxide emissions.  The Dispatch hasn’t admitted the truth of these facts, nor countered them with argument; it simply ignores these facts, and their implications.

Hence, like the bleat from a sheep, we get an editorial complaining that the opposition “doesn’t have a plan!”  Well, Trudeau’s plan isn’t working, but he’s continuing with it anyway: how smart is that?  Canada simply cannot do anything about rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere, plan or not. The political question ought to be “why bother?” and that is indeed the question going through the minds of a large number of Canadians now, and the Dispatch refuses stubbornly to acknowledge it.  Why don’t the geniuses at the Dispatch offer their own “plan” for Canada to halt, by her own efforts, the rising CO2 concentration in the atmosphere?

The more distant its editorial position gets from reality, the fewer people listen to radio station DUMB.

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