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To: RetiredNow who wrote (559057)	4/6/2010 11:53:36 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577593

Mindmeld, > When you tax a bad thing, good things get created to replace the bad thing. What happens when you tax a good thing, like income and sales? Who gets to decide what is "good" and what is "bad"? Who said carbon was a "bad" thing? Some Nobel Peace prize laureate? What do you do when overtaxation and big government is the "bad" thing? How do you "tax" that away? Tenchusatsu

To: RetiredNow who wrote (559057)	4/6/2010 11:54:00 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577593

Not only that, the GOP fought tooth and claw for tobacco for YEARS, when everyone KNEW it was as addicting as Heroin and gave you cancer and emphysema. What could be more evil that that? Killing Americans for political contributions. ..and they're STILL doing it! prwatch.org

To: RetiredNow who wrote (559057)	4/6/2010 12:14:22 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1577593

Time to rebalance America’s economy is set to shift away from consumption and debt and towards exports and saving. It will be its biggest transformation in decades, says Greg Ip (interviewed here) Mar 31st 2010 \| From The Economist print edition economist.com

To: RetiredNow who wrote (559057)	4/6/2010 3:26:28 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1577593

we taxed the crap out of tobacco, and sure it has hurt tobacco profits. However, it has saved millions of lives That's rather questionable. I do believe the taxes have contributed to reducing smoking, but there where many other factors in play and millions is rather large in this context. But, at least if you ignore the liberty concerns, tobacco taxes might make some sense. Oil taxes or carbon taxes are much broader in their impact. You guys on this thread simply fail to account for the costs of externalities related to carbon, including the trillions we spend on oil related wars, pollution from gasoline vehicles and the related medical bills, and environmental damage from carbon based energy mining and drilling. Its true their are major externalities, but you and other supporters of a carbon tax overestimate them, and seem to overestimate the chance of any government body to accurately account for them.