Canada

I typically agree, except that cons are really good at convincing a ton of people to vote against their own best interests.

Like in Ontario.. I'm in a rural area and I hear people bitch about Healthcare and education getting worse, yet they voted for a guy who cuts those things in order to build a highway and a spa.

And guys who very well could do with an EV, bitch about gas prices and bitch about ev financial incentives.

You know what else makes everything more expensive? Fucking flood insurance. We've had 2-3 "once in 100 year" floods in my area (not a flood plain) in the last 10 years. That's climate change and it's already causing increased premiums, decreased of maximums, and costs of renovations and flood proofing. Other areas have other problems, e.g., wildfires, heat domes, etc.

So we can either face the reality that climate change adaptation costs money and come up with a way to make the polluters pay for their externalities, or we can all sell our houses to Aquaman.

Everything is paid for by the consumer.

This is why you cant stop at taxing them more. It also needs to come with enhancing social safety nets and services.

Take more money from those who benefit the most economically from society, and use that money to enhance the lives of everyone.

People are less worried about paying 20 cents more for gas if they know they have more than enough to cover everything else. Right now everyone has been smacked by rampant inflation with little wage growth so every extra dollar going out hurts a lot more.