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Axing the carbon tax a 'foolish move,' says UBC economist
"Never try to solve an income problem with prices," says UBC Okanagan economist Ross Hickey. He says the affordability crisis is more of an income than a price problem and tells BC Today host Michelle Eliot that higher-income households carried most of the burden of the carbon tax, while lower-income consumers got rebates that exceeded the amount they paid.
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