The Game |
"Many
economists like the idea of a carbon tax, saying that it would
be simple to administer and could profoundly affect energy choices." |
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scream-of-consciousness; "If you're trying to change minds and influence people it's probably not a good idea to say that virtually all elected Democrats are liars, but what the hell."
The Game |
"Many
economists like the idea of a carbon tax, saying that it would
be simple to administer and could profoundly affect energy choices." |
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"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " |
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If the Republicans weren't the stupid party, they'd jump on board and tie the gas tax to middle class income tax offsets. The dems would have to shoot that down and would then appear to be against both the people AND the environment.
Devilishly brilliant there anonymous one.
Casca
Notice how all of these global warming schemes means that government gets more money and the poor are the hardest hit.
No wonder the left loves global warming.
Just a couple of steps to walk through:
Yes, it's true that the price of a thing can affect the demand of a thing. This is a hard and fast rule that lefties continually stumble over on their path to dystopia. Artificially hold prices down--gasoline, housing, taxi fares--and the supply of a thing disappears.
Conversely, artificially raise prices and the demand for the thing drops making replacement technologies harder to accomplish the necessary levels of capital accumulation to bring new technologies to market. Because you have induced a pricing artifice that hides the production cost, resulting in outcome one, above.
Imagine pricing oil with a "disincentive tax" while hoping to take advantage of shale or sand deposits.
Environmentalists, having closed the market for nuclear power in this country, now want the mandated power source, coal and oil, replaced with an energy source yet to be named. The fact that the lefties don't see their actions as having impact on our energy choices is not surprising. They're still trying to figure out how that white ball makes all those other billiard balls move.
It's a mystery.
Oregon guy,
Wouldn't placing a $2 per gallon tax on gasoline with the revenue used to offset income taxes encourage alternate energy source development by making it more affordable while also reducing use of gasoline and reducing pollution?
What I wanna know is who's gonna tax the volcanoes and forest fires and mid-Atlantic ridge and all those CO2 sources, not to mention China, India, virtually all of Africa and South America, Indonesia, and other places which add up to about 80% of the world's population and use wood fires to cook with.
Where in the Constitution is Congress authorized to manage behavior via taxation? The income tax required an amendment, so should this.
Last time I was in D.C. I say a WHOLE LOT of SUVs and limos around the Capitol building, not green machines.
Methinks the Democrat from Michigan is slinging a whole lotta poo....