Posted on 10/17/2014 11:43:48 AM PDT by PROCON
Whew. Doesn’t that sound so much better?
Every now and then we get a conservative case for a carbon tax, an idea so terrible that even Australian labor has given up on it. The idea mainly involves finding other names for it.
Carbon tax sounds so taxing. How about Carbon net tax benefit? Carbon earned income tax credit? Now we’re going with 100 Percent Returnable Emissions Tax.
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Not paying attention I’m stealing your money tax
Too many taxes
Too many laws
That should be easy enough to do...just get a koran and read it from cover to cover.
I’ve mentioned British Columbia’s carbon tax before. It is “revenue neutral” (or 100% returnable). IMHO, it is the “least bad” “solution” to the (non)problem of CO2 emissions. That is, it’s better than vehicle mileage standards, better than cap and trade, better than banning (whatever), etc.
When it was put into place, income taxes were reduced to get to the “revenue neutral” part. There is no earmarking of the funds. That’s important — the NDP (Socialist) and Green (Watermelon) parties want to earmark the funds for “fighting carbon”. That would turn a “least bad” intervention into a just plain bad tax grab — combined with a complete waste on the expenditure side.
So long as the tax remains “revenue neutral”, it’s not doing a lot of harm; and it has the advantage of neutralizing the most rabid warmists. However, the threat of it turning into just another tax grab hangs over us like the sword of Damocles.
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