Will paying extra taxes stop global warming and will we be getting our money back if it doesn't?

Question

Will paying extra taxes stop global warming and will we be getting our money back if it doesn't?

Answer 1

If it don't work  there will still be more and more taxes. That is the Democrat way.

Answer 2

Has anyone noticed how the amount of tax is never enough to really stop anyone buying petrol, just pay more for it.

The tax increase for green reasons is just a money earner

If it was meant to stop us buying fuel they would increase it by 1000%

Answer 3

tax is not related to global warming unless of course you tax the sun and collect

Answer 4

LOL no and no

This is for the guy below me, They  are trying to introduce a Green Tax on capital hill as we speak....

Answer 5

No extra taxes will not stop global warming, and no, you will not get your money back.  You can be sure that what ever taxes you pay will disapear completely into the black hole that is government waste.

Answer 6

LOL - No chance, and no chance.

Answer 7

No, but reducing the impact of global warming to a point where IT doesn't cost us a huge amount of money, will cost some money.

"Pay me now or pay me (more) later."

Answer 8

No and no.

Answer 9

No only Buying credits from the sky is falling AL will save us. Just found out another reason Ol Al is beating the warming drum so loudly..." He also serves as chairman of Generation Investment Management, a firm that is focused on a new approach to sustainable investing. " Now, i wonder if this is called a vested interest. Kinda like how the infomercials say we just cant live with out the new improved vibrating rotisserie magnetic Ab Belly pocket fisherman with the Improved power of Water. Fear sells and Gore's cashing in. Even the description of his new book has less to do with facts than it does about bush bashing.

But to answer NO and NO.

Answer 10

Lets just assume the theory of man made global warming is correct.  According to environmentalists that since  high polluters like china and India are not doing anything about co2 emissions, it would be up to the industrialized world to take up the slack. Which would mean cutting co2 emissions by 60-80%. So according to them meeting the Kyoto Accord is not enough.  The taxes will have to be so high as to triple the price of energy to achieve those targets.

So the answer to your question is if taxes are raised enough to meet those targets there is a slim chance (I am not arrogant enough to consider myself incapable of being wrong) and  no.  The only thing that it will do is hurt the poor in the Northern United States who will have to spend what little money they have for the extra heating cost such a tax will impose.  They will also have to spend more money on  groceries, since such a tax will raise transportation costs as well.

Answer 11

there is no need to pay extra taxes, we already pay too much in taxes.

the trick is to shift the taxation from income taxes to gasoline taxes, so we pay the same or less in total taxes, but more of the proportion is shifted to gasoline tax and less income tax