Tax Global Warming - spread a simple concept
This is important. Taxing is a powerful way to deal with things we don't like. We do not like Global Warming. So tax it. Any kind of taxing will do. Top US economist says Carbon tax best way to slow global warming or even the Fee/Rebate system seems quite worthy.
It should cost money for us to continue warming the planet. 255 Economists say we should Tax Carbon Pollution.
"Saving civilization means restructuring taxes to get the market to tell the ecological truth." Lester Brown Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
Dr James Hansen of Columbia Univ. and formerly of NASA proposes "Carbon Tax with a 100% Dividend"
Tax and 100% dividend can drive innovation and economic growth with a snowballing effect. Carbon emissions will plummet far faster than in top-down or Manhattan projects. A clean environment that supports all life on the planet can be restored...
It can be a corporate tax incentive for research, a tax abatement for new business, a sales tax on high carbon goods or services or even a value-added tax on commerce. Or a tax on any kind of stupid consumption. Governments should consider anything - but just Tax Global Warming. Now. Spread the word. Check the Carbon Tax Center.
The single most important policy that could be implemented would be a carbon tax ..."so that those who don't pay the price for carbon don't have an advantage over those who do." - Al Gore Jan, 2008
Right now many legislators are trying to work out a cumbersome, "Cap-and-Trade" policy to limit CO2. This idea is difficult to setup, hard to police and costly to fund a market. Until it gets working, taxing global warming will swiftly and effectivly limit CO2, and motivate industry to change.
-- Dr. James E. Hansen, Columbia University http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/20080804_TripReport.pdf
Government councils can figure out how to best remove the barriers to efficiency and reform and restructure taxes. Because every community, every state and nation will have a different solution. But they should just Tax Global Warming. That is their job - to help citizens meet the future. They know how to write tax code. Just Tax Global Warming.
This is not a political stance. This is not a message from Republicans or Democrats or Independents. It is an appeal to stop the destruction of our planet by taxing it severly. Tax Global Warming. Ask your government to be stewards to your future. Until we all escape from taxes, then just: Tax Global Warming - now. Something is broken and we want it fixed.
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