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Mythbusters: Five reasons why even global warming skeptics should support a carbon tax
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| 2/8/2009
| M. Harrison
Posted on 02/08/2008 10:14:24 AM PST by tang0r
Many friends and colleagues of mine who share my libertarian views are aghast at my organization's policy proposal of the carbon tax to combat global warming. Most of these perturbed individuals are self-styled global warming "skeptics" who are much more persuaded by the scientific evidence doubting the seriousness (or even existence) of anthropogenic climate change than the evidence confirming it.
This article is an attempt to reach out to my free-market friends with five reasons why the carbon tax still is the best option for American policy - even if they're right about global warming.
(Excerpt) Read more at payyourairshare.org ...
TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: agw; carbontax; environment; globalwarming; skeptics
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posted on
02/08/2008 10:14:28 AM PST
by
tang0r
To: Beowulf; Defendingliberty; WL-law; Normandy; TenthAmendmentChampion
To: tang0r
GW is a moral truth not a scientific law.
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posted on
02/08/2008 10:15:59 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(Clam down! avoid ataque de nervosa)
To: steelyourfaith
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posted on
02/08/2008 10:16:12 AM PST
by
edcoil
(Go Great in 08 ... Slide into 09)
To: tang0r
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posted on
02/08/2008 10:16:49 AM PST
by
rightinthemiddle
(The Mainstream Media Controls Our Party. Go, RINOS!)
To: tang0r
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posted on
02/08/2008 10:17:09 AM PST
by
Petronski
(I didn't leave the GOP. The GOP left me.)
To: tang0r
Do I get any credits for an activated charcoal filter?
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posted on
02/08/2008 10:17:20 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: tang0r
Holy missing barf alert batman.
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posted on
02/08/2008 10:17:49 AM PST
by
Domandred
(McCain's 'R' is a typo that has never been corrected)
To: tang0r
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posted on
02/08/2008 10:18:34 AM PST
by
righttackle44
(The most dangerous weapon in the world is a Marine with his rifle and the American people behind him)
To: tang0r
But the way to figure out the actual scientific consensus isn't for idiot non-climatologists like myself or my opponents to blather endlessly about something we know nothing about I don't know anything about it so I'm just going to drink the kool-aid instead of looking at the ingredients first.
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posted on
02/08/2008 10:19:17 AM PST
by
Domandred
(McCain's 'R' is a typo that has never been corrected)
To: tang0r
Had a liberal complain to me about my SUV.
I asked him why he didn't like my SUV?
He said because it polluted the air and used too much gas.
I asked him if my SUV was the only car in the world would the earth even notice how much pollution it caused or fuel it used?
He said no.
Then my car isn't the problem is it?
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posted on
02/08/2008 10:21:19 AM PST
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys: Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat; but they know what's best for us)
To: tang0r; All
WastedYears typing
As long as they don’t politically motivated BS involving this or other stuff, I’ll continue to happily watch Mythbusters.
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posted on
02/08/2008 10:21:31 AM PST
by
wiggen
To: edcoil
Thank you my friend. A
FR thread covers that excellent article.
To: edcoil
We are warming now. It is only -37 today.
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posted on
02/08/2008 10:22:44 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(Clam down! avoid ataque de nervosa)
To: tang0r
Only if you promise to pay MY share.
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posted on
02/08/2008 10:23:08 AM PST
by
NoGrayZone
(I believe we are witnessing the birth of the new Conservative Party....Grab a cigar!)
To: tang0r
By all means, lets jump over a cliff based on a fallacy without a shred of evidence to back it up.
To: tang0r
why would anyone in their right mind support a carbon tax
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posted on
02/08/2008 10:27:14 AM PST
by
jrd
To: Petronski
Doesn’t that have to have a HAZMAT placard on it? (8^D)
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posted on
02/08/2008 10:30:21 AM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
To: jrd
Because they are a college kid, with no income, paying no taxes.....
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posted on
02/08/2008 10:32:18 AM PST
by
goodnesswins
(Being Challenged Builds Character! Being Coddled Destroys Character!)
To: jrd
Because more government and more taxation is the solution to all of life’s woes.
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