Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: elmatador who wrote (24920)	11/8/2007 12:49:20 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 217654

Taxes should be collected at borders, which are what define countries: <Tariff policy can play a major role in rapidly shifting Americans to more fuel-efficient vehicles. While the U.S. imports Saudi oil tariff-free, we levy a hefty tariff on ethanol imported from Brazil, a policy columnist Thomas Friedman questions as either "just stupid" or "really stupid."> Stop taxing cyberspace, start taxing carbon imports. Carbon arrives en masse, so is easy to measure. Ports are easy to control. Since governments are [supposedly, in my opinion anyway] first and foremost border protection agents for mutual security, it seems odd to me that taxes are not collected there rather than from the local yokels. Saudis produce oil tax free while Americans pay tax as soon as they get up in the morning to go drilling for oil or inventing superconductor levitated, propelled, and braked electro-photonic controlled transport vehicles. It's hard to compete with Saudi oil with both hands tied behind your back and only legs left to work with. I am not suggesting there is a problem with CO2, but if people want to worry about it, carbon taxes are better than the current bureaucratic Kyoto MADness. Laughably, New Zealand is shooting itself in both feet, while China gets a free pass to import mountains of coal from Australia and burn it without a care. New Zealanders are racists and think they are superior to the Chinese who are so pathetic that they need a free pass on pollution [not that CO2 is pollution, but that's the claim]. NZ's pollution compared with China's is like a sparrow's wing tip vortices compared with a 747's [okay, that's a slight exaggeration]. Meanwhile, China is buying up the Pacific Ocean countries and Chinese are buying up NZ. Soon enough they will own it all. They will tell the local yokels to shut up about CO2 when they own it. They will drive as they do and block all traffic! One good thing they'll do is tell the hordes of welfare recipients to get a job. Maoris had better do something to stop them because the Treaty of Waitangi will hold no guilt-power over Chinese. Winston Peters has recognized the threats from foreign depredations. Tarken-san has learned quite a bit of Mandarin and can help me out with officialdom. Tradable citizenships would solve the problem and then all the Chinese who want to could buy their way in and NZ would get better. Mqurice