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Posted on 08/10/2007 3:23:59 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Fight Global Warming by Taxing 'McMansions,' Dingell Says By Randy Hall CNSNews.com Staff Writer/Editor August 10, 2007
(CNSNews.com) - The chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee this week announced a plan to fight global warming by reducing carbon emissions up to 80 percent by the year 2050. This would be done by raising gasoline taxes 50 cents per gallon and ending mortgage tax deductions on large houses, which the Michigan Democrat called "McMansions."
During town hall meetings in Ann Arbor and in Dearborn, Rep. John Dingell said he will make these proposals as part of a multi-tiered bill he will introduce on Sept. 1 in his committee, which handles legislation dealing with global warming.
Some home-contracting firms, however, criticized Dingell's proposal as misguided and economically detrimental. And some conservative tax experts agreed, noting that Americans already pay too much in taxes and raising taxes more will only curtail consumption and investment.
Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.)Dingell said his measure will call for an economy-wide tax of about $100 per ton of carbon dioxide emissions; a cap-and-trade system that limits emissions but allows companies that pollute beyond their limits to buy credits from industries that produce less than their allotment; and provide extra funding for research on renewable energy.
But the congressman's most controversial recommendation was to take away the mortgage interest deduction for "McMansions," which he defined as homes larger than 3,000 square feet and which use more energy than smaller houses.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
2000 sf here. If we had a tax on bad ideas, Congress would wipe out the deficit.
Wonder what? Wonder how someone like Dingell winds up in Congress? Wonder if he understands the implications of what he is saying regarding effects on the economy? Wonder how big his house is? Wonder why they don’t just get it over with and start debating the relative merits of socialism and communism on the house floor? Wonder what planet Dingell is from?
He inheritted his seat from Dad, and wants to pass it on to his son.
Congress should be a stint and not a career.
You mean larger homes use more energy than smaller homes?
Who knew?
This is gonna be bad news for Al McGore.
Tax Dingell instead ... Frankenstein’s law - you make the monster, you live with the monster.
This anthropogenic global warming scam is all about raising taxes, growing government and separating the citizens from their God given freedom.
There really is no end to government trying to dictate how one lives...
Al Gore, Ted Kennedy, and John Edwards homes could pay off the national debt under Dingbat’s proposal,
If Exxon's profit of 11c per gallon is "obscene" and "windfall" and such, then what the heck is this 50c tax, on top of the 40+c they have already?
The home mortgage interest deduction should go. So should the non-taxable status of employer contributions to health and pension plans and all the rest of the big sacred cow loopholes. The best way to do this is comprehensive tax reform in which the loopholes are axed in return for a lowering of the rates. But I'm not sure that I object to a retail approach, especially if dems want to take the heat.
The home mortgage interest deduction is a classic regressive subsidy. It is also largely capitalized into the purchase price, which means it drives housing cost inflation. Harry Homeowner pays a higher price up front and recoups when he sells. The real subsidy goes to realtors and mortgage lenders, the middlemen who work off a percentage. Anything that inflates housing costs boosts their bottom line.
“Congress should be a stint and not a career.”
...and not a family business.
Tovarisch, everyone should be cramped into Soviet Union style apartment blocks. Except for of course the special Party people.
And next will be waiting in line at the grocery store for nothing, since food should be produced no more than 20 kilometers from where it is consumed.
This is where the extreme greens want to take us. Yet another attempt at creating Socialist Workers Paradise. It’s only killed 100 million people so far, so what’s a few more?
Want to end global warming? I have a better idea. How about gagging libs?
Keep on talking liberals, Tax and Spend, Tax and Spend, that seems to be all that they know.
A 5 cent a galloon GW tax, now a tax on large homes for GW, someone please tell me gain that Man Centered Global Warming is the cause of increasing taxes...the Socialists excuse made plain.
Pay your tithe at the Church of Global Warming and fall to your knees and repent if you please for destroying the Earth.../s
Maybe, but dang if if it should happen for environmental reasons.
If the DingellBerries tax us, and global worming lessens (which it will), then it just encourages the "I told you so" aspect, and they think the tax actually helped.
Let's not encourage them.
Speechless.
This is part of what all the global warming crap is really all about. Taxation.
It’s getting closer to 1776 every day.
"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
Makes me wonder why somebody doesn’t take Dingell into a back alley.
"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
Congress Critter ping!
I thought lot size was a factor. I can barely see my neighbors, even from the widow’s walk.
"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
"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
Class warfare...
What a complete and total drooling idiot. Words truly just fail here.......
I'm picking up a pattern here.....
Quaint old Chappaqua wind tunnels use more energy in a day than a new McMansion uses in a month. But the elitists sit in front of their fireplaces shivering and passing judgement on everyone else.
Check this out:
http://give-n-go.blogspot.com/2007/01/mcmansions-i-want-one.html
"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
More taxes AND less freedom.
"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
The more these foaming morons on the left open their mealy mouths, the more loathesome their agenda becomes to the average joe.
These droolers should be wired for sound 24/7.
Actually, I have been waiting for some time for the Left to get around to this. Now that they have become bored with beating up on suv's guess this is the next hit job on their list. However, just as with suv’s which these people hide by registering them to entities other than their own names, the Left Power Elite will naturally legislatively be provided with an exemption to such a law. After all, most of these people not only have very large primary homes, villas, and compounds, they have several others scattered around the planet - which they travel to on their private jets, yachts, etc. These people are the epitimey of hypocrisy.
"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
If guys like Dingell had to pay stupidity offsets, most of us FReepers would be rich.
Rush Limbaugh was right. Global warming is all about new taxes.
If I were to guess.....2,999 s.f.
The liberals were sitting around trying to come up with new ways to tax, someone suggested taxing the air you breathe but that was sent to committee to be revisited later. They then decided that they needed a cause that would require funding to support. They called it Global Warming and we will all pay our hard earned money into its money pit for imaginary research and investigatons for years to come.
The liberals were sitting around trying to come up with new ways to tax, someone suggested taxing the air you breathe but that was sent to committee to be revisited later. They then decided that they needed a cause that would require funding to support. They called it Global Warming and we will all pay our hard earned money into its money pit for imaginary research and investigatons for years to come.
Furthermore, this is why certain liberals want the 2nd Amendment repealed.
Let's impose a special tax on members of Congress, and people on their staffs.
ML/NJ
80%! That's just stupid.
20% of the human caused CO2 emissions in this country are from respiration. In other words, if we all sat in the dark in caves all day and did nothing but breathe, we would approach the target of an 80% reduction in CO2 emissions.
Hey, we’re busy building a soviet socialist utopia in Michigan. You can buy a three bedroom, two bath house in Detroit for about the cost of a new car, complete with gangbangers, crooked politicians and burteaucrats needing a bribe.
Comrades, join is in our one state recession with the highest unemployment in the nation, the only state with a negative growth and the No. 1 state in productive citizens fleeing. Then you, too, can vote communists like Dingbells into office forever.
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