Why is the only solution to global warming a tax?

Question

Why is the only solution to global warming a tax?

Answer 1

Because tax is a liberal's favorite solution.

Answer 2

Because that's what liberals know.

When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

Answer 3

"sssHHHH..! "just pay the jewish taxx and be offf!@

Answer 4

because the only thing they can do with global warming, is make money from it, it's not like they have the power to control the climate, thats just want they want you to believe

Answer 5

It's not the only solution, but it's the most efficient solution. Cap-and-trade can work too, but it's cumbersome and hard to administer, especially at the consumer level.

Answer 6

It's a money and power grab and nothing more. Taking your money and forbidding you the freedom of choosing what to drive, how warm you can heat your home, how big your home can be, any other restriction they want to put on you, will not change the weather.

Answer 7

IT IS NOT !!!

Solutions to environmental problems include:

- laws and their enforcement

- subsidies to direct the ecomomy (=carrot)

- fines (=stick)

- taxations (with or without recycling of the revenues)

Right now the FAVORED SYSTEM IS A CAP-AND-TRADE SCHEME.

This system is the same which has been successfully applied in the US to reduced NOx and SOx pollution. It has been developped by economists from the MIT and its implementation started under the Republican president R.Reagan.

Answer 8

Because if it were true that the carbon dioxide cycle was driving the planet's climate cycles rather than the carbon dioxide cycle being driven by the sun's output cycle the best solution for the rich and powerful who are in control is something that they have the power to avoid, tax.

We have real resources and pollution problems that can only be managed over the long term by (world) population control, tax and benefit systems can be created that encourage small families and/or even negative population growth (if all couples have only 1 child the population will halve in 3 generations, to sustain 2 for each couple).  Ultimately taxes can and will be used universally to limit how much of everything the masses in general consume, in a hundred years it will be obvious how many people the planet can support, hopefully a reasonable balance can be arrived at.  The current breeding free for all is unsustainable and we are being led to chase red herrings and find solutions to myths in lieu of facing reality and dealing w. the real problem(s).  Global warming has become the modern religion you can't question, science is always the only solution for things you 'can't' question, even a religion fueled by many of the very same people who should be our 'immune system,' to blind faith, scientists.

Answer 9

Every other scheme winds up encouraging something that should be discouraged, or leaves off incentives for things which would do good and leaves them likely to be ignored.

Examples:

- Cap-and-trade with tradeable permits gives permits to existing emitters, so more efficient startups would have to pay the existing emitters just to do business.

- Technology mandates don't create any incentive to use better technology than mandated, or use it well.

- Caps in general allow the price to fluctuate wildly, meaning businesses can't reliably calculate a savings from investment in reduced emissions.

A tax on carbon emissions (fuels) is really easy to handle, doesn't require any big bureaucracy, lets businesses invest when it's best for them instead of on some fixed reduction schedule, directs the investments where they pay off with the biggest reductions, and gets every application of those fuels.

Answer 10

maybe because the only reason a non-pollutant like CO2 could be blamed for non-existent  pollution is to in order to justify its use to be taxed!

Answer 11

Because, with taxation, comes power.  From power comes control. If one uses their own god given powers of deduction  the only logical conclusion that can be reached is that scientists, all across the globe  either support or reject the notion of global warming.  Simple logic would show that, assuming we are not ignorant, that man in his infinite glory is not the catalyst.

However, we should be concerned because most of the bi ped type creatures on this planet, seem to be emitting this extremely offensive gas, through, uh breathing.  And although many on this earth, at first appearance, for all technical purposes appear to be dead, they are in fact still breathing.  

The notion of paying a global tax for global warming is ingenious indeed.  By having the authority to tax, they can also argue the authority to regulate.  It is in the best interest of governments  to implement a one child policy, and a global tax because by limiting individual freedoms, they can successfully keep people  in line.  After all individuality is the enemy of tyranny.