Warmist Ian Adams opines
(Oregon Live) Conservatives are conditioned to wince at the mention of the word “tax.” Mention the term “carbon tax,” and many will recoil altogether. Still, in the only place in North America where a carbon tax has been introduced, it has been something of a success. U.S. states in the Pacific Northwest are beginning to take notice.
Canada’s British Columbia introduced a carbon tax in 2008. Designed to be revenue neutral, the tax places a price on carbon dioxide emissions, while simultaneously offsetting the cost of implementation with tax reductions in other areas. Thus, B.C. has been able to cut more than $760 million worth of income and other taxes.
Not mentioned are the artificial increases in costs of living associated with carbon taxes, along with things like rolling brownouts, inability to properly heat homes, and limitations on freedom, among others. Oh, and how 1st world nations are slowly abandoning their Hotcoldwetdry measures and taxes.
Long-time conservative tax targets like the death tax and capital gains tax could be eliminated and offset by carbon-tax revenue. Moreover, this could be done while simultaneously complying with the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed regulations on greenhouse gas emissions in a much less economically destructive way. The absolute cornerstone of conservative support for a carbon tax will be authentic revenue neutrality. Particularly out west, where tax burdens are among the most onerous in the nation, any effort to price carbon without an attendant and commensurate reduction elsewhere will be met with opposition.
1st, good luck with eliminating any taxes. Democrats will pitch a fit, proclaiming that as an attempt to kill granny, and , besides, it’s racist and favors the 1%!
Second, this is a false premise about revenue neutrality. Even if it could be achieved (good luck with that!), it would not create any neutrality within our personal and business budgets. The pain of any carbon tax well out does any benefits. Decreases in GDP. Increases in unemployment. Fewer small business start ups. The lower the economic strata the more harm will be done. All for virtually no “environmental” benefit. And this is all based on a false premise that mankind’s release of CO2 is the primary/sole cause of the miniscule increase in global temps over the last 160 years.
Teach you are an idiot concerning economics
You used to worry about the deficit you used to worth about inflation you used to worry about unemployment
Inspire of all the GOP has done to thwart Obama things have gotten better not worse as the cons predicted
That’s better than being like you who is an idiot in all things.
You mean that people can’t worry about more than one thing at a time?
Yeah, the debt keeps rising, food prices are out of control, government spending is out of control, real employment is still dangerously high, real wages have gone down, investors are still playing close to the vest with their money because of regulations, and don’t even get people started on health care.
Reality, meet john.
Writes the guy who is unaware of the use of periods and commas, basic 1st grade grammar.
John,
We are in an economic depression. Without Obama putting $80 billion into Wall Street every month, we would have a decidedly negative stock market trend. We have real unemployment at around 15%, not the 6% that is claimed. The ACA is killing medical care and hospitals. New business is having difficulty with start ups. There is no positive economic news.
Now on elimination of taxes. The Democrats will do just what they did with Reagan. His program was never passed and what did resulted in a mostly positive economy for 20 years. They allowed him to lower the tax rate with the elimination of most deductions and the promise of reduced government spending. The spending increased under the Dems and then they raised taxes without giving back the deductions. We need a constitutional amendment limiting taxation and government spending.