France Tells U.S. to Sign Climate Pacts or Face Tax

NY Times ^ | 2/1/07 | Katrin Bennhold

[LibWhacker]

PARIS, Jan. 31 — President Jacques Chirac has demanded that the United States sign both the Kyoto climate protocol and a future agreement that will take effect when the Kyoto accord runs out in 2012.

He said that he welcomed last week’s State of the Union address in which President Bush described climate change as a “serious challenge” and acknowledged that a growing number of American politicians now favor emissions cuts.

But he warned that if the United States did not sign the agreements, a carbon tax across Europe on imports from nations that have not signed the Kyoto treaty could be imposed to try to force compliance. The European Union is the largest export market for American goods.

“A carbon tax is inevitable,” Mr. Chirac said. “If it is European, and I believe it will be European, then it will all the same have a certain influence because it means that all the countries that do not accept the minimum obligations will be obliged to pay.”

[mainepatsfan]

Please talk to our new ambassador:

[pissant]

F.U. you commie rat.

[PeteB570]

Ah, I see (f)rance still believes everything can be solved with a tax.

[Red Badger]

The European Union is the largest export market for American goods.

And what about their goods? Turnabout is fair play..........

[Patrick1]

Bon chance

[Arpege92]

"F.U. you commie rat."

My thoughts exactly!

[darkwing104]

Hey France! What are you going to do? Surrender?

[ConservaTexan]

...a carbon tax across Europe on imports from nations that have not signed the Kyoto treaty could be imposed to try to force compliance.

I propose a 'bailing your ass out of two wars tax' on any European country that considers charging the U.S. a carbon tax.

[Steve_Seattle]

Well, then we just just slap an extra $5/bottle tax on French wine.

[Doogle]

boycott french products..simple

[Eric in the Ozarks]

This is laughable. Not even the Canuks are following through with Kyoto.

[agere_contra]

France. Just when you think they've reached the absolute limit, they break into a whole new level of sustained ass-hattery.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Ug.....THIS a$$hole? Again?

[Darksheare]

Make it fair.. $15 extra.

[Steve_Seattle]

Euros love taxes and high prices. On her way back from Italy last year, my daughter and her friend each had a small salad and one drink at the British airport (I forget which one). The tab was $50.

[Dallas59]

We had better do it...

Europe has a MONSTER!!!

[AU72]

Gros chance.

[dfwgator]

You and what army, Pierre?

[pipecorp]

WWII tax.. $1,000.00 per euroweenie alive today.
If it weren't for the US saving their asses, they wouldn't be alive today.





Problem solved.

[DungeonMaster]

Did England continue to collect taxes from us after 1776?

[Natural Law]

I wonder if "le Slapdique" is suggesting an imposition of this tax on China?

[concerned about politics]

boycott french products..simple

Buying French is sooooooo yesterday. Who buys from France these days?

I'd love to see a huge boycott of Citgo gasoline, though. That would be extremely productive.

[pabianice]

Chirac addresses French reporters

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Jacque old buddy, last time I checked, France has not paid back the trillions in war debts you owe the U.S. from pulling the froggie fat a**s out of the hands of the Germans. Go take a flying leap.....

[RegulatorCountry]

What is the Kyoto Treaty, if not a tax? Six of one, a half dozen of the other.

[massgopguy]

They owe us a ton of money for rebuilding their asses after WW II.

[massgopguy]

Dear Adolph, give us the Jews and you can keep France.

FDR

[SlowBoat407]

When Airbus comes out with an all-electric passenger plane, I'll listen to what France has to say about "carbon".

[proud_yank]

Go right ahead France.... Just curious, anyone happen to know their current unemployment rates? :-)

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Amen to that!

[ConservaTexan]

Who buys from France these days?

True. I don't seem to remember there ever being a waiting list to purchas the Le Car.

[sono]

"Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute."
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

[dforest]

Well, I'm back. Jacks gonna have to come up with a very special treat for this skunk! The bag and gunshots to the kneecaps isn't enough!

[Lancey Howard]

"I don't think so, Tim."

[concerned about politics]

What is the Kyoto Treaty

It's anti-capitalist propaganda. If France is going to be poor and miserable because of it's socialist policies, everyone has to be poor and miserable because of Frances policies.

[GoldCountryRedneck]

Swell. Grey Goose vodka is the only French consummable I knowingly buy; the current bottle will be the last....

[USS Alaska]

Go right ahead France.... Just curious, anyone happen to know their current unemployment rates? :-)

11%, but it's improving. Damn communists know how to run an economy...into the crapper.

[Lancey Howard]

[ridesthemiles]

I know he is an actor.
I know it is a role in a TV show.
But that doesn't lessen my wish for someone with some balls to be appointed to major positions around the world who can tell France and others to get their own back steps swept before they complain about others.

[x_plus_one]

a carbon tax across Europe on imports from nations that have not signed the Kyoto treaty could be imposed to try to force compliance

Back Door Communism never felt so good.

[mainepatsfan]

French terrorists wouldn't make for a very exciting season.

[proud_yank]

In other news....

French Health Minister Looking to Allow Naps on the Job

[RockinRight]

France Tells U.S. to Sign Climate Pacts or Face Tax

U.S. Tells France to F Off or STFU

[ridesthemiles]

Well, then we just just slap an extra $5/bottle tax on French wine."

Forget a tax- France and all of Europe perceive that all Americans are very rich.

Just refuse all imports of Frence wine, and any other country that gets on this bandwagon.
There is plenty of good wime produced here in America.

[mainepatsfan]

Yeah I don't recall any payment from them seeing how we evicted Herr Hitler from their country.

[Paul Ross]

Remind me again...which nation is primarily responsible for the imminent deployment of the biggest flying gas-hog on the planet???

[word_warrior_bob]

You slimy scumbag! Only wine and queers come from France, since you don't look like a bottle of wine to me that narrows it down a bit doesn't it!

[mainepatsfan]

Someone needs to let them in on the secret that they're no longer a super power.

[goldstategop]

F*ck Chirac! France has NO business forcing Americans to pay any kind of taxes. France, keep your smelly snout out of our affairs! NO!!!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus