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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread.
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To: A.J. Mullen who wrote (7675)11/3/2006 2:20:05 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 12247
 
Ashley, it seems that we have managed to increase the level of CO2 sufficiently to prevent a plunge into another glaciation [hopefully, though the actual temperature increase has been rather pathetic after 100 years of serious effort].

If we assume that we have enough CO2 for now, the best way to limit further increases is by swapping taxes on CDMA and other things of great benefit, for taxes on carbon burning, which will help reduce fuel demand and generally make life better.

The USA could for example raise taxes on imported hydrocarbons/coal and reduce them equally on other things. It's easy to tax supertankers, but expensive to tax swarms of little transactions. That would also help define borders, which is what governments are primarily doing and encourage internal economic activity rather than external; external activity being sometimes enemy economic activity and certainly competitive and perhaps not complying with human rights and pollution standards established in the USA.

Just as governments collected $100 bn in Europe for leasing the commons for private use, they can charge money to protect said commons.

That makes a lot more sense than punishing people by taxation for conducting economic activity which doesn't affect the commons - simply raiding private transactions which don't affect third parties is nothing more than Mafia gangsterism, dressed up in legality = "You pay us, we'll give it to our cronies and 'protect' you".

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