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June 6, 2007
CO2 Tax: Bite the Pillow
As you've probably heard, CO2 — the stuff that you breathe out and plants breathe in — is currently regarded as a deadly pollutant by the politically correct. Naturally, bureaucrats will inevitably tax it.
Grins Eric Toder of the Urban Institute:
This is going to happen anyway so we might as well enjoy it. And maybe something good will come of it.
In other words, bite the pillow and try to like an unnecessary tax estimated to cost our economy $100 billion per year, in addition to stunting growth.
Posted by Van Helsing at June 6, 2007 10:09 AM
Comments
Might as well tax arbors, federal & state parks, the amazon and all backyards for the CO2 their trees emit at night from the act of respiration. Remember the Appalachian chain? (Guess where the "blue ridge" and the "smokies" get their name?) Answer: those are hydrocarbons produced from trees and vegetation. And those appellatives were given long before the 1900's.
While we're at it, tax all sunbathers and solar power adherents for soaking it up, because for the past century or longer the sun's temperature has increased, thereby enabling global warming. Too, since earth's magnetic field is steadily weakening, thus allowing more cosmic rays to reach us, we should conjure up more reasons to tax in order that ample revenue is always available to our reality-challenged socialist brethren.
Think we all get the idea.
Posted by: fellowes at June 6, 2007 9:02 PM
In other words, bite the pillow ...
What's Barney Frank got to do with this?
Posted by: Crush Liberalism at June 7, 2007 11:03 AM
