The NDP British Columbia government 2023 budget promises a continued attack on family budgets.

To verify my reaction my first bit of research  needed to clarify the meaning of the word hypocrisy. 

So lets start there: 

Behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe. 

Say one thing but do another.

Claiming to have moral standards to which ones own behavior does not conform.

Insincerity, deception. dishonesty, double-dealing are a few more bits of connective tissue that reflect

the disdain this government reveals towards the everyday working folks it claims to serve.

This attitude is made crystal clear with the plans to triple carbon tax in the next 7 years, starting with escalations a few weeks from now.  Driving costs more, heating your home  with LNG costs more, and increasing transportation costs means everything you buy will cost more. Don't forget that's on top of the increased pump price and heating your home costs.

So the government espouses converting everything to electricity to wean our lives into the mythical universe of a carbon neutral nirvana in order to save the planet. At the same time, they will punish anyone with the audacity to use carbon based fuels. They buy into the fear mongering science of pending doom because we use gasoline and diesel and LNG  and other fuels derived from oil but the government is quite ok with raking in mountains of dough from the very products they claim to despise.

That defines the term hypocrisy to the Nth degree in my mind.  We (the NDP) say we think carbon based fuels are the evil scourge even though they are still a necessity for existence but we are not only going to continue  to beat you up mentally over your disregard for the environment, we are going to gleefully grab more of your money through excessive carbon taxes just because we can!

Meantime, electric vehicles speed around on those glistening asphalt highways with narry a hint of  any costs to them  to save the world other than the narcissistic belief that they are saving humanity from extinction.  Can you imagine the government wanting their millions of dollars in electric vehicle subsidies returned?  Or a tax on electric vehicle registrations to help maintain our streets and highways?  You can bet your meagre savings that the NDP will not touch that concept with a 20 ft. pole.  Maybe the revenge will come when electricity costs spiral in North America and oil consumption stays the same globally as other countries swallow up the evil surplus of the energy source that brings them radical economic advancement.