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We have reached bottom of our collective pockets

Why can’t Premier Christy Clark eliminate the carbon tax for now, while gas prices are so volatile.

Editor, The News:

Re: ‘Cut back on spending’ (Letters, Feb. 29).

It’s high time government and all other associated people with their hands out for more taxes realized that those of us on fixed incomes have reached the bottom of our collective pockets and we are closed to any more taxes.

Every time someone adds 10 per cent on to this or 15 per cent on to that, our quality of life goes down by an equal 10 to 15 per cent, and frankly I’m sick of having our governments voting themselves raises and expecting the taxpayers to pay for them. This is out of control and needs to stop.

Why can’t Premier Christy Clark eliminate the carbon tax for now, while gas prices are so volatile, to give us a break, and at the same time review the whole issue of this tax? It’s done nothing to help the environment by getting people out of their cars. People will always want to drive their cars, and have the freedom the automobile provides them. No tax is going to change that.

What we need is for government to support new energy sources, and research into same, so that generations from now will be driving machines powered by totally different means from what we’ve become used to.

John Turner

Maple Ridge