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Climate Revenue

aplusmnt

Well-known member
Out of all the stupid stuff Liberals fall for. This one has got to be the most idiotic one in the history of the world. To actually support a tax because some days are hotter than others. How stupid can these people be?????

Bad thing is this will hit poor people the hardest, it is the Midwest that uses the most coal and will face the highest hikes in energy cost.

So Obama taxes the rich directly and then taxes the poor through cap and trade. God them Democrats love their taxes! The more people they can keep poor the larger their base will be!

And the sad thing is you liberals cheer such things on and defend it!

Once you start taxing the weather what else is left? :roll:

Obama budget realistic on climate revenue-analysts

By Deborah Zabarenko and Ayesha Rascoe

WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's estimate of $646 billion in revenue for the first years of a carbon-capping program to curb climate change is realistic or possibly a little low, policy analysts said on Thursday.

Obama's budget for 2010 projects this revenue, from 2012 through 2019, will fund $150 billion in clean energy technology investments over 10 years and a tax credit to help Americans make the transition to a less carbon-intensive economy.

"I don't think it's overly optimistic at all," said Brian Murray, director for economic analysis at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University.

"It's on the conservative side," said Tim Profeta, the institute's director. Both spoke in a telephone interview.

"From a substantive standpoint, the numbers are based on a good analysis," said David Gardiner, senior adviser to the Ceres coalition of investors, environmental groups and others aiming to curb climate change.

The $646 billion figure, spread over eight years, presumes that a U.S. law to limit carbon emissions will be in place by 2012, and Obama has said he will work with Congress to make this happen.

Obama has said he wants a so-called cap and trade system that would put a price on emissions of climate-warming carbon. Companies that emit more than the limit would have to buy emission permits; companies that emit less could sell emission credits.

It would mean about $80 billion in revenue annually, the Nicholas institute's Murray said, with each ton of carbon emissions priced at $15 at the start of the eight-year period. Because the goal is to reduce carbon emissions, the carbon price would rise over the eight years.

Cap-and-trade legislation that narrowly failed in the Senate last year forsaw higher revenues based on a carbon price starting at $18 a ton and rising from there.

Read the rest of the article here
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2639202120090226
 

Larrry

Well-known member
I agree it is a stupid liberal idea. I didn't really feel like I needed to post stating I agree with aplus but since the socialists want responses here goes.

Now watch em complain about posting and agreeing
 

badaxemoo

Well-known member
Could you two please keep this thread going for a little while longer?

I would like to get a transcript later, hire a couple of voice-over actors, and create a series called:

"'Stipid' Liberals and Hot Day Taxes: Part I of the Great Dialogues on Politics and the Environment Series"

I could make a fortune marketing it to universities and in truckstops across the country.
 

aplusmnt

Well-known member
badaxemoo said:
Could you two please keep this thread going for a little while longer?

I would like to get a transcript later, hire a couple of voice-over actors, and create a series called:

"'Stipid' Liberals and Hot Day Taxes: Part I of the Great Dialogues on Politics and the Environment Series"

I could make a fortune marketing it to universities and in truckstops across the country.

Thought you said satire was suppose to be funny? :?
 

badaxemoo

Well-known member
aplusmnt said:
badaxemoo said:
Could you two please keep this thread going for a little while longer?

I would like to get a transcript later, hire a couple of voice-over actors, and create a series called:

"'Stipid' Liberals and Hot Day Taxes: Part I of the Great Dialogues on Politics and the Environment Series"

I could make a fortune marketing it to universities and in truckstops across the country.

Thought you said satire was suppose to be funny? :?

Who said it was satire?

And please stick to you original topic of "stupid liberals - hot day taxes".

Nobody would want to buy a transcript filled with useless banter.
 
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