So let me get this right…pollution is bad, but if you pay a tax for pollutting it is ok? That had to be dreamed up by a liberal.

Maybe the U.S. should have stayed on board with the Kyoto Pact.

Gosh I guess intelligence never gets through a pigs thick skull. The premise is that if there is a premium paid for polluting, then the polluters will do whatever possible to avoid paying that tax. Kind of like rich folk that send their moneys to Grand Cayman to avoid paying taxes in their own country. Say, you are a chemical company, like Dow Chemical. If you release a bunch of toxic pollutants that poisons the water supply or kills a bunch of people. If you don’t fine them alot more than they saved by dumping the pollutants, they there is no deterrent. If the people responsible for killing many citizens by releasing poisonous gas do not go to prison for a long time, they will have the impetus to do it again and again. all for profit devoid of empathy.
Oh hell eventually you could make them president or energy policy chief.

Jed,

There’s also the business of having to pay for the increased health costs resulting from the emissions.

But Pig doesn’t believe in any of that. He believes that TONS of particulate matter entering the atmosphere have no impact. It’s called the ‘head in the sand’ syndrome. Given his track record, I have to believe he also bought the tobacco companies “experts’” claim that tobacco is not addictive. In his convoluted world, everything businesses do is good, anyone opposing them is bad.

I envy him. His world is safe and easy. His mantras are: “Don’t bother me with facts,” and “I know what I know.”

Fines and penalties are one thing if you break the law, but taxing is considered steady income for the Liberals that they can do what they want with.

Maybe they can tax the fisherman of the world so we can have fish past the Liberal expectations of 2048.

And you call the GOP fear mongers?

Golly hallze, seems to me it’s been the GOP that has benefited from the boondogle of taxes in the last 12 years. Was it liberals building a bridge to nowhere? Is it the liberals offering the oil companies $14+ Billion to go destroy the last few pristine places in alaska? is it the liberals bringing the capitols visitor center to 10 times overbudget? c’mon man, it’s not that difficult to figure out if you just stop swallowing propaganda like it’s fact. Look at facts and then make an informed opinion, don’t just spout off what they feed you, a horse does that and it’s only product is horse shit… and physical labor.

Hallzee – You are exactly right. And it won’t be long before this tax on polluters is a tax on the middle class.

Jed – Nice how you dodge the point Hallzee maded by pointing to what some Republicans did with pork barrel. Before you tell someone to quit swallowing the propoganda you might try it yourself.

“Is it the liberals offering the oil companies $14+ Billion to go destroy the last few pristine places in alaska?”

65% of Alaska is owned by the federal goverment and used national forests, national parks, and wildlife refuges. There are plenty of pristine places in Alaska. So maybe try some facts yourself.

DirtyDennis – I don’t need to listen to the tobacco companies experts. They sell a legal product and if adults wish to use it that is thier choice.

Jed,

So basically you’re saying we shouldn’t increase energy efficiency and decrease pollution, because if we tax it, companies will do more of it because they might find out ways to not get caught?

Gee, with that logic let’s just stop having police investigate crimes like robbery and murder, because if criminals know they’ll pay for it they won’t get caught.

And I can assure you just because a company can deposit electronic money (existing as 0s and 1s in a bank’s computer system) to a swiss bank, doesn’t mean they can magically transfer pollution to one.

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tax CO2? do we have to pay for what we exhale? the gas that we exhale can hardly be somthing that can be considered polution can it?
carbon dioxide is cleaned out of the air by plants, and they replenish the air with oxegen. kill all the people and co2 will go down, but it isn’t even the cause for global warming.