Comments on: Imagine: A Harmonized, Global CO2 Tax

By: Who Cares about Copenhagen? « MentalPolyphonics

Who Cares about Copenhagen? « MentalPolyphonics — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:37:26 +0000

[...] can’t the huge markets of the US and the EU just implement a carbon tax and apply tarrifs to force the rest of the world in line? Why does there need to be any international negotiation at all? What’s the point of being a [...]

By: Gift Taxes

Gift Taxes — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:42:25 +0000

I like the idea of carbon tax because I’m really interested in touching environmental issues. I believe that it can be considered as one of the most effective alternative to ruduce greenhouse gas emissions.

By: Marshall Saunders

Marshall Saunders — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:07:33 +0000

I do not think that an internationally harmonized cap and trade system will ever work. Simply stated, people cheat. Over the last 19 years I have spent considerable time working in third world countries with microcredit and I have seen that the governments are often weak, the regulations weak and the enforcement of those regulations honored in the breach. I see offsets purchased in one of those countries as being unreliable. Conversely, my experience has been that those governments are pretty good at collecting taxes. So I think an internationally harmonized tax on C02 emissions would be much more likely to be enforced than cap and trade offsets.

By: What do you think about global warming?

What do you think about global warming? — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:36:29 +0000

[...] Cow ‘emissions’ cause global warming And this is where all of this BULLBUTTER is leading: http://www.carbontax.org/blogarchive…lobal-co2-tax/ Global carbon tax __________________ Psa 55:16 As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD [...]

By: Michael Harder

Michael Harder — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:54:15 +0000

Regarding the cost impact of a carbon tax on domestic industrial users, why not “rebate” the carbon tax they pay–but not in direct proportion to their carbon emissions? That way the anti-competitive cost impact is offset while the incentive for efficiency/alternative fuels remains. Requires that we can communicate a compound sentence.

By: James Handley

James Handley — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:31:01 +0000

DL,

I hear your worry about big government. A carbon tax is basically a user fee for dumping into the atmosphere. It’s the least intrusive, most effective option to broadly encourage reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. That’s why conservatives (e.g., Greg Mankiw, Ken Green) prefer it over cap/trade (a hidden, volatile, regressive tax), regulations, and rationing, which are far more bureaucratic and inefficient options.

Also note that we advocate distribution of carbon tax revenue to households, not more government spending.

By: Dragon Lady

Dragon Lady — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:12:51 +0000

What’s next? Int’l ID System? Int’l Banking? Int’l Police? One World Gov’t? Carbon tax is bullshit – Thousands of Scientist had already debunked the theory of CO2 being the culprit to another bullshit- Global Warming. You greedy people make me sick.