Tax now exceeds price of product

Dear editor: Don’t you just love it – the carbon tax game? We must congratulate our esteemed governments as they have finally done it. They have achieved the ultimate in taxing insanity and infamy. We now have a tax that exceeds the price of the actual product.

I have been checking my Fortis bills lately and the infamous carbon tax now exceeds the cost of the gas, you know, the actual product we are buying. The carbon tax was 112 per cent of the actual cost of gas. The tax is more than the actual product. Yup, that will save the world all right.

Even better, when you take all the taxes into account, the municipal operating fee, carbon tax, clean energy levy (what the heck is this?) and the GST, they are 170 per cent, almost two times, the actual cost of gas.

Don’t you just love the natural gas taxes as well? I guess we should be glad there are only four of them. Oops, I hope I didn’t give them any ideas. Duane Martin Penticton of course, to save money, in the town hall built for that purpose. Second, if outside venues are used, it seems reasonable that there should be rotation between all local businesses that can offer the facilities needed for such meetings, rather than the business being awarded without discussion or request for proposal overwhelmingly to a single business.

Council often tells Osoyoos tax payers that it is careful with taxpayers’ money. The fact that money is being spent unnecessarily on meetings that do not make use of the town’s own facilities suggests otherwise. Sy Murseli

Osoyoos