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Raise Taxes to Fight Global Warming
Washington Post ^ | 9/27/2007 | H. Josef Hebert

Posted on 09/27/2007 5:31:26 AM PDT by glide625

Dealing with global warming will be painful, says one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress. To back up his claim he is proposing a recipe many people won't like _ a 50-cent gasoline tax, a carbon tax and scaling back tax breaks for some home owners.Dingell says he hasn't rule out such a so-called "cap-and-trade" system, either, but that at least for now he wants to float what he believes is a better idea. He will propose for discussion:

_A 50-cent-a-gallon tax on gasoline and jet fuel, phased in over five years, on top of existing taxes.

_A tax on carbon, at $50 a ton, released from burning coal, petroleum or natural gas.

_Phaseout of the interest tax deduction on home mortgages for homes over 3,000 square feet. Owners would keep most of the deduction for homes at the lower end of the scale, but it would be eliminated entirely for homes of 4,200 feet or more.

He estimates that would affect 10 percent of homeowners. He says "it's only fair" to tax those who buy large suburban houses and create urban sprawl. Historic and farm houses would be exempted.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: 2manylaws; 2manytaxes; 2muchregulation; 2muchtaxation; globalwarming; taxes
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Coming to you from the Marxist Tyrants soon to be in charge of new social engineering policies. If you think about the broader picture it all begins to make sense. Stop a "growth" economy and replace it with a "No Growth" economy through higher taxes, fees and regulatory red tape. A significant reduction in economic activity will of course reduce the generation of "green house" gases while at the same time causing a significant up tick of unemployment creating a larger pool dependent on Uncle Sugar Daddy for subsistence thus creating more pro-Marxist, anti-American voters. It might just work!
1 posted on 09/27/2007 5:31:27 AM PDT by glide625
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To: glide625
Hey, Dingell.....GFY!!
2 posted on 09/27/2007 5:32:59 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: glide625

>>He says “it’s only fair” to tax those who buy large suburban houses and create urban sprawl. Historic and farm houses would be exempted.

It’s almost time for the next revolution.


3 posted on 09/27/2007 5:34:33 AM PDT by The Raven
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To: glide625

Since he doesn’t even claim to be raising money to SPEND ON FIGHTING GLOBAL WORMING, his only point is to cause pain.


4 posted on 09/27/2007 5:37:34 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: glide625

This is just an excuse to raise taxes period. The money won’t be spent on anything that will do a damn thing related to GW. It will go into pork projects in Dhimmikratz districts. This is just as big a scam as GW is already. Note that he didn’t release any info on projects that the monies are to be used for, just raise the taxes, THEN they’ll decide what to do with it. .......................


5 posted on 09/27/2007 5:39:51 AM PDT by Red Badger (ALL that CARBON in ALL that oil & coal was once in the atmosphere. We're just putting it back!)
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To: Izzy Dunne

If Europe cares so much about Global Warming maybe they should send us some Euros so we can fight fit.


6 posted on 09/27/2007 5:40:55 AM PDT by HHKrepublican_2
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To: glide625

Can’t they keep him busy doing something less damaging? What happened to his impeachment plans?


7 posted on 09/27/2007 5:42:52 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: glide625

Any tax revenue used to reduce CO2 emissions is still money down the crapper.


8 posted on 09/27/2007 5:43:46 AM PDT by Thrownatbirth (.....when the sidewalks are safe for the little guy.)
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To: glide625

This is what the whole global cooling/warming/climate change thing has always been about: redistribution of the wealth, from the proletariat to thje priviledged class. Social communism WORKS, darnit! Hundreds of millions of dead people can’t be wrong. Just ask Bill, Hill, Al, Joe, Chuck, etc., etc.


9 posted on 09/27/2007 5:44:53 AM PDT by cake_crumb (May I never live to see the day America has a 'popular war'. God bless our troops.)
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To: Red Badger
The money won’t be spent on anything that will do a damn thing related to GW.

As if anythng could be done to "combat" the Earths natural cycle. They might as well raise taxes to help the Sun raise on the west.

10 posted on 09/27/2007 5:45:07 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: glide625

Raising taxes has been the goal all along. The global warming farce has merely been the latest means to achieve that goal.


11 posted on 09/27/2007 5:45:49 AM PDT by meyer (Illegal Immigration - The profits are privatized, the costs are socialized.)
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To: glide625; Killing Time; Beowulf; Mr. Peabody; RW_Whacko; honolulugal; SideoutFred; Ole Okie; ...


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12 posted on 09/27/2007 5:46:25 AM PDT by xcamel (FDT/2008)
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To: glide625

Ha,ha,a tax increase. Somehow I’ve always suspected at the end of the “global warming” theory there was new and increased TAXES waiting at the finish line !!!


13 posted on 09/27/2007 5:46:31 AM PDT by Obie Wan
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To: The Raven; PhilWill; kevkrom; n-tres-ted; Jaysun; konaice; Bones and Bones; Bigun; GPBurdell; ...
It’s almost time for the next revolution.

I agree. It's to revolt with a fundamental change in our tax code. Imposing taxes is no longer used simply collection but is used to control and punish the people. The answer is a bill before Congress called The Fair Tax Act Of 2007. it will abolish all federal income taxes and the socialist IRS and replace it with a consumption tax. More information can be found at the Americans For Fair Taxation website.
14 posted on 09/27/2007 5:46:32 AM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: glide625

Dingell-berry


15 posted on 09/27/2007 5:47:02 AM PDT by davidlachnicht ("IF WE'RE ALL TO BE TARGETS, THEN WE ALL MUST BE SOLDIERS.")
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I’m not exactly sure what Big John’s position is on Global Warming, but I know he’s a big backer of the US Auto makers. This is a very interesting tactic to smoke out the lefties. Let’s see if any of them have the stones to step forward. I think this is his way of thumbing his nose at all the greenies.
16 posted on 09/27/2007 5:49:23 AM PDT by CJBama (Roll Tide)
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>>Coming to you from the Marxist Tyrants soon to be in charge of new social engineering policies.<<

This particular action isn’t so much Marxist as it is anti-American. You just about could not come up with a better plan to put our country at a disadvantage versus Russia and China.


17 posted on 09/27/2007 5:50:30 AM PDT by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.)
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To: Red Badger

This isn’t ABOUT “GW”, it’s about 2008 and the guaranteed win the Democrats expect.


18 posted on 09/27/2007 5:50:31 AM PDT by cake_crumb (May I never live to see the day America has a 'popular war'. God bless our troops.)
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To: glide625

Latest Weather Channel Headline.
GORE’S GLOBAL FLATULENCE COULD BECOME ANOTHER GAS TAX!


19 posted on 09/27/2007 5:50:50 AM PDT by rusureitflies? (OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD! There, I said it. Prove me wrong.)
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To: glide625

An average-sized coal power plant would put out about 3 megatonnes of CO2. So, this tax proposal would add $150 million per year to its operating costs and you would have to pay about twice as much for power.

On average, 1 million people produce about 30 megatonnes of GHGs each year and thus total taxation would increase by $1.5 Billion or $1,500 per person.

If we are going to pay twice as much for power, and pay $1,000s more in taxes each year, and wreck the economy in the process, then the science better be 100% proven.


20 posted on 09/27/2007 5:51:16 AM PDT by JustDoItAlways
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