The Resource Tax
Global Warming! Never mind what Exxon Mobile say, it’s the biggest problem we face today. It is not an exaggeration to say that it threatens the very future of the human race. It is nature’s reaction to mankind outgrowing the safety of insignificance, and into a new age where we have the power, the numbers and the technology to really muck things up. Unless we start taking responsibility as a race for our actions, we face extinction by uninhibited greed.
As ever I have many solutions which I have put forward on this site, and now is time for me to unveil my latest scheme, one I suspect will be my most popular, and it involves the rather irksome business of tax.
My plan is a massive overhaul in taxes that puts their main focus on global warming. First of all abolish income tax. Get rid of it altogether. Secondly, make up the difference by raising the tax on products and services which exacerbate global warming through unnecessary wastage. For instance plane tickets, low mpg cars, goods shipped from overseas using heavy gas guzzling tankers (buy local!), beef that farts, SUV’s, electronics that use exotic materials that pollute through complex mining procedures, patio heaters, packaging on a sliding scale depending on necessity, fuels, particularly leaded, non energy efficient light bulbs and so on. This would mean that people who lead a carbon considerate lifestyle would benefit financially over the selfish. Life would not become boring because huge financial benefit would be piled behind ways to have fun without damaging the environment through developing carbon neutral pastimes such as hangliding, cheese rolling, jousting and sex.
Sure it would lead to a dent in the economic benefits of consumerism, but this would be counterbalanced by the prevention of the partial destruction of the economy through escalating debt, and the full destruction of the economy through global warming. All of the energy governments put into chasing tax evaders would be put behind ensuring that taxes are fair, with an intelligent sliding scale on all goods and their various sub-categories. For some it would mean less taxes and a reward for a social conscious. For others it would mean a violent come down to earth. Global warming is not doom mongering. Doom mongers bounce up and down the street with placards in tin foil hats; they don’t command scientific opinion or conduct international debate.
My plan is a massive overhaul in taxes that puts their main focus on global warming. First of all abolish income tax. Get rid of it altogether. Secondly, make up the difference by raising the tax on products and services which exacerbate global warming through unnecessary wastage. For instance plane tickets, low mpg cars, goods shipped from overseas using heavy gas guzzling tankers (buy local!), beef that farts, SUV’s, electronics that use exotic materials that pollute through complex mining procedures, patio heaters, packaging on a sliding scale depending on necessity, fuels, particularly leaded, non energy efficient light bulbs and so on. This would mean that people who lead a carbon considerate lifestyle would benefit financially over the selfish. Life would not become boring because huge financial benefit would be piled behind ways to have fun without damaging the environment through developing carbon neutral pastimes such as hangliding, cheese rolling, jousting and sex.
Sure it would lead to a dent in the economic benefits of consumerism, but this would be counterbalanced by the prevention of the partial destruction of the economy through escalating debt, and the full destruction of the economy through global warming. All of the energy governments put into chasing tax evaders would be put behind ensuring that taxes are fair, with an intelligent sliding scale on all goods and their various sub-categories. For some it would mean less taxes and a reward for a social conscious. For others it would mean a violent come down to earth. Global warming is not doom mongering. Doom mongers bounce up and down the street with placards in tin foil hats; they don’t command scientific opinion or conduct international debate.
1 comments:
Gostei muito desse post e seu blog é muito interessante, vou passar por aqui sempre =) Depois dá uma passada lá no meu site, que é sobre o CresceNet, espero que goste. O endereço dele é http://www.provedorcrescenet.com . Um abraço.
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