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To: elmatador who wrote (26589)	12/17/2007 3:29:56 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 220125

Governments are hopeless. They fly to Bali to wring their hands over CO2, exacerbating the problem and wasting a fortune. They don't have huge import tariffs on carbon. But they do on food. As usual, they do it the wrong way around. No tax on food and cyberspace would be a good idea [by food I mean actual food, not sugar combined with hydrogenated fats, refined flour and a bunch of chemistry from factories]. Refined sugar is suitable as a fuel for vehicles, not for people. Wheat at $10 a bushel seems cheap to me. No tax on cyberspace is good. Tax on food is bad. Tax on carbon is the way to fix CO2 emissions if that's such a worry. Governments could keep total taxes constant by taxing carbon and not taxing food, cyberspace, incomes. They could stop traffic congestion by tolling roads. Mqurice