Before we start talking about a global warming brand of tax or taxation, maybe we should ask ourselves IF we want some international agency taxing us at all. Lets see, we have property taxes, city and county taxes, state taxes, federal taxes, excise and a host of other taxes. Why not a global warming tax? Maybe a Milky Way tax too?
How about a 2012 Defense fund tax too!
At last weeks Bali international meeting on global warming, a global tax on carbon dioxide emissions was urged to help save the Earth from catastrophic man-made global warming at the United Nations climate conference. A panel of UN participants urged the adoption of a tax that would represent “a global burden sharing system, fair, with solidarity, and legally binding to all nations.”
EC Carbon Tax::
One of the causes of global warming identified was the emission of so-called .. "Global Effects of the European Carbon Tax." Economics Working Paper No.
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Dingell Carbon Tax Proposal not an Alternative to Passing an ::
Sep 27, 2007 posted a draft bill on his Web site that proposes instituting a carbon tax to address global warming. Key elements of the bill include a $50
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Sounds fair doesnt it?
Othmar Schwank, a global tax advocate, told the panel discussion that at least “$10-$40 billion dollars per year” could be generated by the tax, and wealthy nations like the U.S. would bear the biggest burden based on the “polluters pay principle SSRN-Tax Policy to Combat Global Warming: On Designing a Carbon ::
SSRN-Tax Policy to Combat Global Warming: On Designing a Carbon Tax by James Poterba.
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Green Wombat: Report: Carbon Tax a Better Way to Fight Global Warming::
Global warming is hardly a "liberal thing", it's a human thing. We tax all sorts of things we want more of. Now, let's tax what we want less of: carbon
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.” Now e know why Bush and the U.S. is against the tax! :-)
The U.S. and other wealthy nations need to “contribute significantly more to this global fund,” Schwank explained. He also added, “It is very essential to tax coal.” The tens of billions of dollars per year generated by a global tax would flow into a global Multilateral Adaptation Fund to help nations cope with global warming, according to the report. Most representatives beleive that a global carbon dioxide tax is an idea long overdue.
A funding scheme which generates the resources required to address the dimension of challenge with regard to climate change costs has been on the agenda for years. But now, the U.S. under immense pressure ahs agreed to look into the possibilities, which doesnt mean the U.S. will go along with it. Can America agree with such inclusiveness (can the religious fundamentalists)?
Seems as though to whom much is given, much is required!
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