Sin is understood to be the best thing to tax, but taxing it is generally seen as impractical, due to sin being generally underground (driven there by laws, with taxes thus reduced to excises on
alcohol and tobacco)... However, taxing Carbon is easy, even when Carbon
use is regarded as sinful, because there is no chance of anyone covering it up in a big way... All that had to be done was to put a handle on it, on Carbon
use as sinful, that bureaucrats could
use, scientific proof, formulae, models, and all that, and
surround them with minders, Environmental PR minders.
Hopefully the Supreme Court will
use this opportunity to lessen the legal ambiguity
surrounding the
use of mandatory random
alcohol testing in safety - sensitive workplaces, as the provinces have been divergent on this issue.