careinke wrote:AdTheNad wrote:careinke wrote:The best thing would be to eliminate ALL energy subsidies AND raise carbon taxes to the point where alternates seem the logical way to go.
I agree almost entirely, but how does that mesh with your minimal government beliefs, and what happens with the tax revenue?
How about lowering the deficit. Or even better, buy back the treasury notes and burn them.
I LIKE it. 100%. Let's do it! So I take it that puts gasoline at what, $8 or $10 a gallon? This, roughly, seems about right to WAKE PEOPLE UP, which is what I think is needed.
Now just two questions. The left, who purports to being all about green will have a FIT about what this will do to poor people (especially those who make poor choices of vehicles, live in the sticks, etc).
1). So do we need a subsidy for the poor to make up for the hardship this will cause, or do we tell them to take the bus, carpool, walk, etc?
2). If we do need a subsidy, where does it come from? Some of the taxes raised from the higher gas tax, or another tax?
Given the track record of the perma-doomer blogs, I wouldn't bet a fast crash doomer's money on their predictions.