Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/25/2010 7:57:32 AM PST by NRG1973
Good idea. Let’s replace income taxes with consumption taxes.
We could call it the FairTax.
Its amazing that it took a liberal Canadian to think of that. </sarc>
Tax cut=cause
Always....
What a mindset we are saddled with.
“Revenues Returned To The Economy In The Form Of Cuts To Other Taxes”?In a PIG’S EYE!!
It’s scary to think that this guy is walking around loose among us. He definitely has some serious “issues”.
Oh good after the carbon tax collapses the Canadian economy I will get to add socialist give-me-free-stuff Canadian illegal economic immigrants to the current give-me-free-stuff Latin American immigrants.
Simply brilliant! The fevered liberal mind at work.
Every layer of taxation requires a huge new government bureaucracy that will scrape off its take, further diminishing the productive power of society. That's a real recipe for success.
You know what's scarier...he isn't the only one that feels this way.
“Lets have another tax for the sake of having another tax”
WE are the "elsewhere". We have oil running our of our ears. Offshore (near and far), in Alaska, in shale. HUGE amounts of oil. Potential MASSIVE deposits offshore to be exploited as Brazil does. Natural gas too. If only we STOPPED government meddling on behalf of environmental "experts".
Another tax will cure all of our ills. Where have we heard that before?
If we found an acceptable and viable alternative energy source, it would pay for itself without being financed with tax dollars. Wind, solar and ethanol don’t stand on their own and all-electric cars will never compete with the gold standard we’ve been so accustomed to.
Why the hell does the envirowhacko left always push us regressively instead of forward technologically?
yeah if someone wants to make the case that there is a problem with importing oil from the middle east then why would he want to tax his own energy sources?
The argument fails on purely economic terms. His arguments are too idiotic to refute in detail and not worth the time. Spare us.
In brief, he is assuming that there is a market failure than can be remedied by targeted taxes and subsidies. If one of his assumptions is invalidated, the whole house of cards collapses. Since the previous pretext (assumption) for targeted taxes is now widely greeted with skeptism if not outright derision, he shifts premises and hopes nobody notices.
Lookit, we’re not that stoopid and we noticed, now cut it out. Capish?
According to Bjorn Lomborg, even if the Kyoto Protocol had been fully adopted and implemented, it would only decrease global temperature by 0.008 degree Fahrenheit by the year 2100. Similarly, current European Union climate policy will cost $250 billion of GDP annually, yet it will likely decrease global temperature by a mere 0.1 degree Fahrenheit.
So who is actually going to benefit from these carbon taxes?
Great idea. Let’s tax all government salaries 70% and return the money to the taxpayers.
This dude must have been hanging around smoking crack in East Hastings for too long.
But, but it is working out so well in China (not):
The Unintended Consequences of Carbon Reduction in China
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2632563/posts
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