I don’t agree with either gloabal-warming-alarmist position, but a tax is much more honest than the cap-and-trade scheme and wouldn’t subject us to the bureacratic nightmare that acompanies cap-and-trade.
The fact is, we should have neither.
those republicans must have recieved money from GE who wants the carbon tax as part of their smart grid scam.
Also, however, Cap and Trade is a Wall Street wet dream, and is SURE to be a scandal bigger than Bernie Maddoff could ever pull off!
How do you “title” the underlying assets in any “green credit”??
The same trees will be used time and time again, for supposedly different “credits”!
Also, what if the “green” activity goes broke, burns down, etc? Who will track that?
It is a huge scam!
A carbon tax is more honest, and it reduces the opportunities for legalized white collar crime and Gorean money laundering.
But, as you say, its still a tax. You’re still taxing energy producers for producing energy, and that tax gets paid by you and me. We pay it directly on our power bill, and we pay it indirectly as the cost of absolutely everything goes up in direct proportion, because everything we do and everything we use uses power.
The FACT is, global warming is a algorean wetdream fantasy. And anyone calling themselves a conservative better get that through their thick skull ASAP