Gosh. Who knew that a massive tax could solve all imagined climate problems?
David L. Hagen writes:
The UN is demanding control over $1.6 trillion per year to control climate. See Section 47 in draft # FCCC/AWGLCA/2011/CRP.39 9 December 2011 #GE.11-71576 at: http://trade.cc/owg
47. The provision of the amount of funds to be made available annually to developing country Parties, which shall be equivalent to the budget that developed countries spend on defence, security, and warfare. Fifty per cent of that amount shall be for adaptation, 20 per cent for mitigation, 15 per cent for technology development and transfer and 15 per cent for forest-related actions in developing country Parties;
See Reuters: Worldwide military spending edged up in 2010 to a record $1.6 trillion, a leading think-tank said on Monday. Source: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s military expenditure database. http://trade.cc/owi . . .
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Real criminals play for trillies. Bernie was such a piker.
I can only imagine the conversations…
“How much should we tax the Westerners in order to control the climate?”
“Let’s start with an amount equal to their entire defense budgets.”
Not that I don’t agree with you here, I think this is a sham and even if the tax somehow went into place the money would be misused.
However, where pollution like carbon dioxide and other such side products of industry are negative externalities (those that produce them do not bear the cost of the damage done) there is no free market incentive to not pollute. This is why, for example, fines are imposed for dumping waste into rivers. If you cannot attach a cost to the negative action via government there is no incentive for marketplace participants to not produce the negative externalities. We just need to find a smart way of doing it.
Very true. We can prove pollution pollutes rivers. At this point in time, we cannot prove that CO2 causes temperatures to increase on the earth. That is the issue. Americans in general do not want to pollute. They also do not want to be regulated unless what they are doing is actually creating pollution. You do realize that every time you exhale you are producing CO2?
the fucking left will go to the grave pimpin this horseshit. its the jesus card for them. at least the right doesnt change the name of the horseshit they spew.