Posted on 11/22/2012 10:52:52 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I heard a great progressive admission recently. The man was describing the virtues of Cap and Trade.
The tax on carbon is paid by fuel users. Those are actually producers who pass the tax onward to customers on a per usage basis. That is everyone pays, even kids.
That means Cap and Trade is actually a scheme to extract taxes from those now paying no income taxes. The once removed payment device provides political cover and deniability for raising taxes on the poor. It can be argued that Cap and trade is in fact a fair tax in that everyone pays on the basis of energy consumption
Since the FICA tax goes into the general fund, I suppose you could say we already have a flat tax, in addition to all the current tax system. Ten percent would come no where near financing the beast.
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