To the editor:
RE: Carbon gas tax to boost prices

Dear Gordon Campbell and Carol Taylor et al,

I was not sure how to title this. "Thanks but no thanks," comes to mind.
"Thanks for nothing", is also quite appropriate. So to keep things simple, I chose "Typical", because that's what the Liberal Party should rename themselves. Typical, because you give with the right hand and take with the left. I am so against this tax, I want nothing to do with it at all. In the words of Carol Taylor, "you can do what you want with your $100." SO I RETURNED IT! That's right! So, if you have not already received it by now, you will shortly. The $100 you so proudly promoted, spent God knows how much money to send us the measly $100, killed a lot of trees to do it, has been returned to you marked "return to sender-refused by recipient". So watch for it.

I saw the news that night it was announced - oh so proud - big (smug) smiles on your faces - Carol saying she is going to buy herself a new pair of runners. So, lets put them under the microscope - because this means she is planning on walking to work, walking to the grocery store (ya, that's rich). And how about all those meetings you are needing to attend - you gonna walk to them? Lets remind ourselves they will be spending "our hard earned money" - tax dollars - on those out of town meetings - because your arms are going to get pretty tired if you have to fly there...unless you are planning to walk . Mind you, you have successfully generated some extra dollars to allow for the increased cost of airplane fuel. Well done!

You have insulted my intelligence for the last time. If you think for one minute, you can buy me with $100 to "change my carbon foot print", you should have asked me first. You announce it at the last minute - sneak it under the wire. All your tax cuts and benefits you continue to announce mean absolutely nothing! It does cater to "families" and it should. I wasn't a single mom forever and tax time wasn't so bad. But now I am just single, but still need to be recognized. You see I still have expenses too you know! Myself, along with all the other working poor, the middle class - one income households. I am stuck between a rock and a hard place and need to make ends meet during the year, and so need the 2nd job. But at tax time - look out. I've got to "bend over" every single year. There are
absolutely no tax relief/benefits for single people. How does the government, provincial or federal, in their infinite wisdom, conclude that single people either don't need tax breaks? Maybe they think we don't deserve tax breaks. Maybe they just like how hard we work for "their money" and it's always guaranteed income for them because they sure like to tax us to the "nines".

When you, the Government, come up with a "plan", call me. My people will talk to your people - we will do lunch. Oh, your buying!

Darlene S. - Kelowna