Are Grants For Green Policie To Profitable Corporations Appropriate?

People need to wise up once and for all about climate change initiatives and targets.

While I'm not one to rely on Rebel Media (though I think they're better than the crap in the mainstream press with its controlled narratives and fake news), I post this because it illustrates, I think anyway, how climate change initiatives are paid for.

First off, Mr. Groh deserves credit for not running away and answering questions. One may not like the responses but he was being honest and for this we can but be appreciative.

Second, we see in the response how it all goes down.

The calculus goes something like: Activists and some scientists: OMG climate change! We're gonna die! We need to radically revolutionize and uproot our existence or else! The government: Holy shit! Here's some money and make sure you dramatize it. We're gonna use this to get votes and push an agenda including carbon taxes. Then Ministers appointed globetrot around the world on private jets hanging out in swanky hotels rubbing elbows with all major players to enact policies that....YOU WILL PAY FOR.

And it doesn't end there as we see with the anti-science hysteria around plastic bags.

In any event, in this case, Mr. Groh alleges the $12 million dollars it got from the government was for climate change initiative to improve equipment to reduce emissions. As opposed to getting it to 'buy fridges'.

I fail to see how that's better.

Now in fairness. They did nothing illegal. In fact, they're just taking advantage of a government program offered to companies. It's there so take it right? Can't fault them.

The question rather is, is it appropriate to give such grants funded by tax payers available to billion dollar companies?

I lean no. It's not appropriate. I don't get a single dime of help from the government in my business. In fact, the constant extending of red tape costs me money. 

You want to make a difference? Pay for it yourself.  Why should tax payers pay for your virtue-signalling (because I'm betting this won't do anything)?

Now. This is the part I want to point out. That $12 million. The government recovers it through various inefficient tax schemes like carbon taxes.

You pay and you pay again.

You die and die again.

Then people wonder why they feel poor. We're not poor. We've never been more prosperous. It's just that we demand too much of government and there's a cost to that. That cost 'for civilization' is taxes. Taxes impact cash flow negatively. Do the exercise. Here in Quebec, we pay a whopping 15% sales tax. Remove that silly tax and see how much you have left in your wallet at the end of the month. Never mind that taxes hurt economies in unseen ways. For example, I don't shop in Quebec where possible. I'd be a fool to pay such taxes where I can avoid them.

Quebec business better begin lobbying the government to reduce the sales tax in my opinion.

Slight digression aside, if companies are dedicated to these causes they can do so on their dime.

I'd respect them more. I'd even take the movement seriously. Just like the mainstream media insisting they're not liberal (even though 80% of journalists vote Democrat) and pretending they're 'objective'. I respect Fox because they don't try and hide to be something they're not. Everyone knows CBC, CBS, NBC and so on all put a left-wing spin on the news. Be up front about it.

They're asking us to pay for the privilege of them getting awards and being cast as 'leaders' for whatever initiatives du jour they support.

Want to get serious? Card on the table. Enough of all this nonsense and 'Green Deals' filled with tangential utopian ideas and ideals that will lead to mass starvation and death.

Wanna start? Go nuclear.

If not. I don't think even people selling this propaganda believe it. It's all a racket to score some coin.