Squash-n-Stretch wrote:Also, shouldn't carbon be taxed? Its damaging to the planet.
Allow me to reveal something you may not have considered....
Every living thing on the planet releases carbon dioxide except for plants and many forms of bacteria which actually require it to survive. To put it in other terms, every living thing that uses sunlight to make food, be it in the ocean or on land, requires carbon dioxide to live and in turn releases air for US to breathe so we can live. If people realized this then the "official" explanation for global warming would crumble apart. This is one of global warming's best kept secrets, but don't take it from me, research it for yourself.
So if plants and bacteria need carbon dioxide to live and we need plants and bacteria, how can carbon dioxide be damaging to the planet? If more people realized this on their own they would laugh Al Gore out of popularity and demand he return his Nobel Prize. Al Gore doesn't even practice what he preaches!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,257958,00.html http://www.tennesseepolicy.org/main/art ... cle_id=367
http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_102512.asp http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?secti ... id=5072659
"The Gore mansion uses more than twice the electricity in a single month as the average American family uses in a year."
"Gore’s heated pool house alone uses more than $500 in electricity every month."
Wake up and stop perpetuating the lies people!
Right now power plant emissions are being taxed in Colorado. It is sort of preliminary, to see how the public takes it and surprisingly they are taking it well. Power suppliers don't seem to mind the extra revenue either so it won't be long before this gets adopted nation wide.
Carbon dioxide is not the danger.
Here lies the danger, Once this tax is adopted nationally it will likely NEVER go away like so many other taxes. It is only a matter of time before YOU and I and EVERYONE YOU KNOW will be considered a source of this "toxic" carbon dioxide and be taxed as individuals accordingly. Al Gore has already suggested this:
http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/show/1849.html (Since Gore isn't on a payroll he wouldn't have to pay this tax) Is this tax really necessary? What do you think will be done with the collected revenues? In the end who benefits? One can only guess
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