Can Force afford this kind of tax?
Posted on 09/18/2006 7:58:10 PM PDT by XR7
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore on Monday suggested taxing carbon dioxide emissions instead of employees' pay in a bid to stem global warming.
"Penalizing pollution instead of penalizing employment will work to reduce that pollution," Gore said in a speech at New York University School of Law.
The pollution tax would replace all payroll taxes, including those for Social Security and unemployment compensation, Gore said. He said the overall level of taxation, would remain the same.
"Instead of discouraging businesses from hiring more employees it would discourage business from producing more pollution," Gore said.
Gore, a longtime environmentalist, also proposed that the United States re-join any successor to the U.N. Kyoto Protocol for curbing global warming beyond 2012.
Scientists believe global warming is caused by the trapping of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, in Earth's atmosphere. The consequences of this climate change include rising seas, stronger storms and intense heat waves.
Under the Kyoto global warming treaty, 35 industrialized nations -- but not the United States -- have agreed to cut carbon dioxide emissions to below 1990 levels.
President George W. Bush withdrew from the Kyoto pact in 2001, saying its caps on greenhouse gases would cost jobs.
"The absence of the United States from the treaty means that 25 percent of the world economy is now missing. It is like filling a bucket with a large hole in the bottom," Gore said.
Gore's proposals may be too radical to gain much support and are likely to be opposed by some business interests.
Many power companies are watching the U.S. government's every step on global warming. Any future national plan in the United States, the world's top emitter of greenhouse gases, to regulate such gases could force many companies to shut down coal-fired generation or add expensive carbon-capturing devices to their equipment.
this would simply accelerate the de-industrialization of the US. when there are no more "polluters" to tax, what's Gore going to do next?
Tax carbon dioxide emissions - every time you exhale, you get taxed!
Gore's an idiot.
No more eating beans. Gore wants to tax pooters.
Gore declares to not tax RATS brains after global lobotomy performed on all RATS. Doctors warn RATS not to remove bandages from left butt cheek after the part of their brains were removed.
Can Force afford this kind of tax?
What is missing is that the Senate rejected the Protocol 99-0. This wasn't done on a whim. It was a bipartisan slam-dunk.
We've been working to get rid of the income tax in favor of a VAT or flat tax. Here's an opportunity to go ahead and do something along those lines with liberal support. I say call the bluff with a concrete proposal that makes the income tax unconstitutional and increases energy taxes to a revenue neutral level. Then watch the libs weave and dodge and turn on Gore themselves.
I sincerely hope he runs in '08.
Tell you what Mr. Gore. We will tax pollution, when we start taxing lies, Ok?
If Goron would be the first to strap that polluto-meter to his gasbag face maybe everyone could get a little bit more peace ..... oh wait..... jimmuh is probably going to beexcercising his b-hole/mouth in the next few days. So much for peace and quiet from these retread leftist tools.
Here's a novel idea: how about the government stops putting its guns to the heads of working people and confiscating their money altogether... it seems to have become axiomatic somehow that those in "The Government" - so-called - have an unlimited right to the private property of the producing classes. Meanwhile, maybe Al Gore should get himself an effing job and quit sucking on the public teat.
this is grossly unfair to Southern states,
for taxing electricity for air conditioning.
of curse, states that get their electricity from Canada,
would probably support this.
this reminds me of mcCain and lieberman's
climate stewardship act,
that would tax air condiotioning
but not home heating with oil
or natural gas.
what a bunch of F^^^s.
Come on. This has to be scrappleface or some such satire, doesn't it?
Even Gore can't possibly be this stupid, can he?
Then tax the methane spewing from his pie hole.
Does this guy have a Jay Oh Bee???
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