Taxing production will not fix the economy nor will it be the catalyst to extricate America from its oil dependency. This is nothing more than a faux-government solution designed to play at a person's humanity; no one wants the planet to be destroyed, or to breathe polluted air or to drink contaminated water. Government intervention and more specifically a tax will not force the market. by jposty
(libertarian)
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Sen. Obama while giving a speech in Wallingford, PA. Wednesday, stated that Al Gore, Nobel Peace prize laureate and global warming activist, will play a large role in his administration to help address the problem that is - global warming.
"Not only will I, but I will make a commitment that Al Gore will be at the table and play a central part in us figuring out how we solve this problem. He's somebody I talk to on a regular basis. I'm already consulting with him in terms of these issues, but climate change is real. It is something we have to deal with now, not 10 years from now, not 20 years from now."
Obama said he would use Gore to help forge a cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions designed to lower pollution.
The Illinois senator cautioned that such a system could mean an increase in electricity bills from power companies that rely on coal-burning, and that some of the money generated from a cap-and-trade system may be used in the beginning to help lower income or fixed income customers with those bills.
Taxing production will not fix the economy nor will it be the catalyst to extricate America from its oil dependency. This is nothing more than a faux-government solution designed to play at a person's humanity; no one wants the planet to be destroyed, or to breathe polluted air or to drink contaminated water. Government intervention and more specifically a tax will not force the market.
Global warming, despite what the environmental advocates say, is not yet fact. Nor is it indispensable. It is still a theory and under that pretense skepticism and logic should dominate the discussion. It is simply the prevailing school of thought, right now. History and Geology have demonstrated time and time again, that the Earth is cyclical. It is quite possible humanity sped up this heating cycle a few hundred years, possibly even a thousand, but what no one is discussing is the fact that the Earth corrected itself during almost every one of its weather cycles.
Even if the gloom-and-doomers are correct, a guilt tax is not the answer. Politicians and political pandering should not rule the day, especially with the possibility that there is in fact man-made global warming. Scientists, doctors, educators, business leaders and innovation should lead the charge into the future rather than bureaucracy and cronyism that inevitability occurs when the government intervenes.
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Obama has campaigned on the promise that he would leave the politics and the battles of the last eight years behind. If he is planning to appoint Al Gore to the government and accept Hillary Clinton as V.P. he is obviously intending to take us back to the nineties.
We can't really know for sure about wether or not humans are causing global warming because we don't have another planet for the control test. Who cares what is causing it though? If the very well respected scientists at the National Academy of Science are right we won't get a do over. It would be great if the free market and business would voluntarily do something about it but history is not on their side. Business is and should be about profits. Profits are made by cutting costs. Business does this by cutting corners and using cheap labor. The air is much cleaner today because business was "forced" to put catalytic converters on the cars they make. I don't agree with the carbon tax either because it is the consumer that will ultimately bear the burden. I don't want snake oil salesmen selling medicine that kills my kid and I don't want manufactures potentially throwing the human race into early extinction. There is a price to pay to do business in this country. It should be fair for all. But the risk of doing nothing when we all know that cars and the various ways we burn oil cause pollution is simply too great. Let's not be the guys who work for the tobacco company that insist that cigarettes are actually healthy for you. Anyone who has ever smoked knows that they aren't.
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