An eco-fee has run up an $18 million fee for Liberals
The Liberals find themselves on the hook for $18 million dollars due to an eco-fee which barely lasted but the effects are now being felt.
Heading into next fall’s provincial election, Dalton McGuinty will probably have plenty of occasion to curse the day he first heard the term “eco-fee.”
The new fee began appearing on shopping receipts on July 1. It was applied to consumer products in an attempt to recoup costs of handling hazardous wastes present in everyday items after they were thrown out or recycled. More than 9,000 items, including things like light bulbs and batteries, were hit with the new fee at the point of sale.
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Useless taxes are usually a burden to the taxpayers, but this is a rare case of a tax hurting the people who imposed it. The Liberals’ bill of $18 million is proof that taxes should always be thoroughly debated and put to the consesus of citizens. To try to slide in a new tax clearly has unfortunate consequences.