[XR7]

LOL
I'd like to see someone pull this off.
If it's the invenotr of the Internet - so be it.
He's got my vote!!!

[oceanview]

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?

[ConservaTexan]

"Instead of discouraging businesses from hiring more employees it would discourage business from producing more pollution products."

[urroner]

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.

[Andy from Beaverton]

Can Force afford this kind of tax?

[MAexile]

Let's start with your motorcade, Mr. Gore.

[Norman Bates]

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.

[massadvj]

If Gore is proposing eliminating the income tax in favor of additional gas and/or oil taxes, then I'd say that is a tradeoff worth considering. The additional savings at the household level would more than compensate for the additional taxation at the pump, there would be strong incentives to become less oil dependent, and the administration of such a tax would be far less intrusive to individual liberties.

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.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

I sincerely hope he runs in '08.

[Richard Axtell]

Tell you what Mr. Gore. We will tax pollution, when we start taxing lies, Ok?

[scatterometer]

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.

[Jack Hammer]

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.

[greasepaint]

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.

[metmom]

Come on. This has to be scrappleface or some such satire, doesn't it?

[dfwgator]

Even Gore can't possibly be this stupid, can he?

[Tulsa Ramjet]

Then tax the methane spewing from his pie hole.
Does this guy have a Jay Oh Bee???

[FlingWingFlyer]

I'd love to see a MASSIVE tax on all politicians and political organizations for all the Barbra Streisand they put us through. I wonder if morons like al-Gore ever get tired of listening to themselves yak.

[Defender2]

Mr. Gore, please just TAX the hell out yourself, wo'nt you please!!!!

[Defender2]

Mr. Gore, please just TAX the hell out of yourself, wo'nt you please!!!!

[PackerBronco]

"Instead of discouraging businesses from hiring more employees it would discourage business from producing more pollution," Gore said.

Gore, you're an idiot. Instead of discouraging business from hiring more employees, it would ENCOURAGE government to declare more and more things as pollution (whether they are or not) in an effort to garner revenue.

[goldfinch]

Oh. My. Goodness. Hillary is smiling tonight.