France Tells U.S. to Sign Climate Pacts or Face Tax

NY Times ^ | 2/1/07 | Katrin Bennhold

[frogjerk]

F.U. you commie rat.

Is there anything else that needs to be said? I don't thing so.

[backbencher]

...a carbon tax across Europe on imports from nations that have not signed the Kyoto treaty could be imposed to try to force compliance.

Carbon tax! Sounds more like tariffs on US goods. With the Euro rising, their goods are going to be less competitive. France is trying protect their industries, and lying about the reason.

Let them increase tariffs on US goods. We will just do the samething thing to them... except we will call it an "asshat tax".

[longtermmemmory]

and France wonders why they are losing market ...

you can now LEGALLY buy "champaign style" California Sparkling wine.

Wine snobs can say all they want about the grapes and the region, the fact is the word Champaign is now a NOUN describing ANY white sparkling wine.

What elese does france offer? Mouldy cheeze? Over priced perfume?


The carbon tax is an ecconomic weapon for their failing ecconomy, in essence protectionism. It has NOTHING to do with the fraud of man made global warming.

[Kellis91789]

On the contrary. Every nation has the right to impose tarrifs, duties, etc. on goods entering their country. Of course, they have to decide whether it is worth the reciprocal tarrifs. Trade war.

Europe has already gotten away with adding VATs to American imports while rebating the VAT to their own producers when exported outside Europe. Their VAT revenue makes their corporate taxes lower than they would otherwise be. The American counterstroke should have been to remove all corporate taxes and replace with a NRST that would apply to everything sold within the US but not on goods exported. That would have given our manufacturing sector back a level playing field. Hasn't happened, although the NRST gains a little bit more support every year. If Europe just added a percentage to their VATs and rebated it to countries that had signed Kyoto, they could backdoor the US into paying.

[keats5]

And what does France intend to do to decrease it's emissions from excessive car burning?

[longtermmemmory]

Interesting question will each Airbus 380 have to pay a carbon impact tax fee PER FLIGHT?

[Hexenhammer]

yup. we'll see how they like a complete economic embargo.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

They need a Dhimmi Surrender Monkey Euroweenie tax on their exports to America.

[Artemis Webb]

Dear President Chirac,

Blow me.

A. Webb

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

My dad used to live in Europe. While I was visiting him in 1986, we went on a trip from Geneva to Munich. On the way there, my dad used the can on the train. When he tried to flush, a burst of air pressure from under the train splashed urine all over him, so he spent a little while cleaning himself off.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I stopped buying my favorite French red wine back in 2003 when they screwed us on Iraq. Now I buy Australian. I am not going back.

I already stopped buying Perrier when it stopped being on sale. Now, I think I'll just stop buying it period.

[Southack]

I welcome, encourage, and embrace a trade war with France.


BRING

IT

ON

[LibWhacker]

Another thing about Chirac's demand that really gets me is his insistence that we sign the future accord that's supposed to take effect in 2012. Has that treaty even been written yet? If not, he's demanding we sign a blank check. I've heard of chutzpah before, but that takes the cake. Oh, man, how I'd love to see an American president who wasn't afraid to put these tinpot putzes in their place.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

If they don't like the American product, what are they going to do - buy a European equivalent? Of a computer, for instance?!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

These Frenchies are worse than Jay Rockefeller and Olympia Snowe!

[Wolfstar]

3 wars -- we bailed them out of the Bosnia mess too.

[RinaseaofDs]

Victoria BC, every two years or so, gets a chance to vote on whether or not to build a sewage treatment plant.

You see, today, their untreated effluents go straight into Puget Sound.

All of these idiotic countries can cry me a river of sewage.

[oldenuff2no]

These agreements holds the UDA to a tougher standard than the rest of the world.
Hey mr france ass, make everything equal and we will think about it. Until then please block you personal methane with your head!!!!