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2006-09-19 Home Front: Culture Wars

Gore says tax pollution, not payrolls. IRS jails gore for being a polluting gasbag.

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Posted by Clitch Slavising3387 2006-09-19 01:07|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 That would be the Global Warming that isn't happening. CO2 levels continue to rise at a record rate. Meanwhile global temperatures peaked in 1998.

Correlation does not prove causation, but the absence of correlation is categorical proof of the absence of causation.

Posted by phil_b 2006-09-19 02:52|| 2006-09-19 02:52|| Front Page Top

#2 This seems an unfair tax on the rich to me. Limosines and personal Jets put out so much more CO2 than your average SUV. Plus heating the 9000+ sq foot house. pool, hot tub, empty guest house and ~~slave~~ maid/gardner quarters.

Posted by tabd 2006-09-19 04:01|| 2006-09-19 04:01|| Front Page Top

#3 gardener

Posted by tabd 2006-09-19 04:02|| 2006-09-19 04:02|| Front Page Top

#4 "Instead of discouraging businesses from hiring more employees it would discourage business from producing more pollution," ~~Barry Goldwater~~ Gore said.

He's finally flipped. This has as much of a chance as - no, way less than - a flat tax. He's just throwing stuff at a wall to see what sticks. Hillary'd be proud.

Posted by Bobby 2006-09-19 07:08|| 2006-09-19 07:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Al Gore: Environmentalist, Zinc Miner

On his most recent tax return, as he has the past 25 years, Vice President Al Gore lists a $20,000 mining royalty for the extraction of zinc from beneath his farm here in the bucolic hills of the Cumberland River Valley. In total, Mr. Gore has earned $500,000 from zinc royalties. His late father, the senator, introduced him not only to the double-bladed ax but also to Armand Hammer, chairman of Occidental Petroleum Corp., which sold the zinc-rich land to the Gore family in 1973.

It also seems that zinc from Mr. Gore's property ends up in the cool waters of the Caney Fork River, an oft-celebrated site in Gore lore. A major shaft and tailings pond of the Pasminco Zinc Mine sit practically in the backyard of the vice president's Tennessee homestead. Zinc and other metals from the Gore land move from underground tunnels through elaborate extraction processes. Waste material ends up in the tailings pond, from which water flows into adjacent Caney Fork, languidly rolling on to the great Cumberland.

Posted by Frank G 2006-09-19 09:48|| 2006-09-19 09:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Frank! You dirt-digger!

You makin' that up?

If not, you ought to e-mail it to Jimmy Carter's peace foundation.

Posted by Bobby 2006-09-19 09:57|| 2006-09-19 09:57|| Front Page Top

#7 check out the link - it's true and Gore couldn't deny it in his 2000 campaign

Posted by Frank G 2006-09-19 10:47|| 2006-09-19 10:47|| Front Page Top

#8 This is a sensible idea, it's silly to attack the messenger.

If there were a market in CO2 reclaimation and the money raised from taxing CO2 (as a proxy for real pollution externalities) only went there then the tax would be recycled away from the government, where it does most harm. It would also move the west away from subsidising wahabist oil.

It would be an excellent idea to move away from taxing income (punishing job creation and working).

A small tax on the value of property ringfenced for the police, army and judiciary who defend it's value via property rights could also be justified.

For the rest of the socialist taxes the bin should held wide open.

P.S. CO2 is not a pollutant and is a lagging track of the global temperature as #1 said.

Posted by Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2006-09-19 12:39|| 2006-09-19 12:39|| Front Page Top

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