Posted on 12/21/2015 3:47:17 PM PST by grundle
I support a revenue-neutral carbon tax on each ton of carbon dioxide emissions. Start the tax at a low amount (perhaps $5 per ton), and then increase it by some small amount every year (perhaps $2 per ton). And use that tax revenue to lower other taxes by an equal amount. I dare Democrats to push for such a policy.
And in order to get Republicans to go along with it, the tax that gets lowered could be the corporate income tax. We could eventually repeal the entire corporate income tax, and replace it with a carbon dioxide tax.
If Democrats are truly against global warming, and if Republicans are truly against the corporate income tax, then what possible objections could they have to this proposal?
grundle, I read you are the author of this.
You’ve been around for a long time. You haven’t pinged my radar much, but I assume you’ve been a decent freeper, to make it for 14 years.
That said, whatever possessed you to pen this? Taxation, especially on GLOBAL WARMING — based on a hoax and possibly a fatal one — is not what we stand for here.
You know that.
So what gives.
Ha! Will the ‘in-shape’, andren-junkies be charged more (exercise = more CO2) than the lowly cough potato?
For every pair of running shoes multiple...
For every pair of strained stretchy pants divide...
I know, let’s invent a tax based on a hoax and force everyone to BOW TO THE HOAX via government force!
“Why not replace the corporate income tax with a tax on carbon dioxide emissions?”
I might go along with that as long they don’t include breathing, burps and farts.
Good points by you in post 21.
Actually, a carbon tax would be a lot simpler and better than what a lot of environmentalists actually want the government to do. Plus, getting rid of the corporate income tax is a great idea.
That's a good point.
That's a lot better than my idea, but the Democrats would never support it.
What I said was that people who were considering voting for Obama for a second term in 2012 might want to consider voting for Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate instead. I myself voted for Gary Johnson the Libertarian Party candidate.
It’s my blog, so I definitely support it.
The proposal would replace the corporate income tax with the carbon tax, all in the same bill.
But the repeal of the corporate income tax would be in the same bill as the creation of the carbon tax.
Also, I think a carbon tax would be far less worse than some of the other things that environmentalists are proposing.
Plus, my proposal challenges environmentalists to do something where everyone could easily see the harm that it caused, which is very different from the thousands of pages of complex and harmful regulations that many environmentalists would prefer, which aren't immediately visible to the average person.
Any emissions coming from the human body would be excluded.
“Any emissions coming from the human body would be excluded.”
Well, that’s a relief. In more ways than one, too!
Pound sand.
BFD. You can shove either one right straight on up your bunghole.
Rule One: NEVER give leftists ANYTHING they want. They're never satisfied. The issue is never the issue. The issue is always The Revolution.
Now this crap makes sense. You were high on weed when you wrote it.
How many business are there that do not emit any sort of gas, save what their employees exhale?
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