they didn't fix it....

that means that i'm going to end up with a $224 refund from the carbon tax, but it will be used to pay down my $100,000 student loan debt (that is, vanish into thin air) instead of given to me to spend in the economy. it makes no sense. but that's what happens when you let entitled pricks write the budget.

it's not like it's my money in the sense that i paid into it, and i don't feel like i'm dealing with any real inflation in anything i actually buy, although you'd have to ask somebody with a car about that more directly. i don't feel ripped off. i'm not angry.

i'm just baffled, still - even if it's not coming out of my pocket, it's really just a dumb policy to take $200 away from the poorest people in society and give it to some faceless bankers to pay down a debt that shouldn't exist in the first place. so, it's actually more like that this is the least effective student loan forgiveness program of all time, and i'm scratching my head at how they could be so stupid.

and, the answer is that they purged the party of all of it's experience, so they don't have anybody around that knows how to do this kind of thing, anymore, and have written a lot of bad legislation due to not having the proper experience to avoid these mistakes.

they should have set up the climate refund in a special program, like they set up the gst rebate in. that way, you don't have people going through the absurdities that i'm going through with this.

*shrug*. that's $400 in interest to the banks from the government, now. i can't complain about that, exactly. but, it could have helped to create jobs in the local economy instead.....and i could have used it to have fun, rather than have it get wasted sitting in the bank.