The FACT is, global warming is a algorean wetdream fantasy. And anyone calling themselves a conservative better get that through their thick skull ASAP
Agreed. I don't think anyone is disputing that. I don't know what Jeff Flake is doing supporting global warming in any way -- but he's not the only Republican. McCain is on board; Giuliani; Huckabee; Romney; Schwarzenegger; Crist; Palin. All of them!
My post was primarily referring to the headline, of why one might choose a tax over the cap-and-trade scam. Indeed, IF global warming was a real threat and IF we really believed that it could be stopped through human action, then levying a tax to accomplish that is a far more direct method of funding such an investment than would be cap-and-trade.
I would bet that most haven't researched all the gory details of what comes along with a cap-and-trade program. (I was a masochist and actually read the McCain/Lieberman bills they introduced). I am encouraged that so many at least recognize it as BAD -- a tax, of a different variety. But, as marron pointed out, it C&T is also a vehicle for white collar crime. It's also a system that allows the government to choose which businesses will be winners and losers. It also creates a huge bureaucracy to monitor, control not only greenhouse gases but to set up an SEC-like entity to oversee carbon trading. I could go on...
When Schwarzenegger first shoved cap-and-trade onto California, he was quoted over and over in the MSM calling it a "market based solution." Capping greenhouse gases is NOT market based. Setting up a market to trade hot-air has some market qualities, but it is a dishonest scam to enrich some strategically positioned entities that have spent the last decade getting ready to pounce.
Everyone needs to fight the AlGorean fantasy -- whether taxes or cap-and-trade. I am still hopeful it can be killed.