I wrote Taxing The Air We Breathe back on September 2nd 2009. I said I was joking with a friend saying we may get taxed for breathing, but I was being somewhat serious. Just 2 days later in an interview with SPIEGEL Online Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the German government climate protection adviser (probably the equivalent to [...]

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I was talking to a friend a few months back about the outrageous amount of money the government is spending. My friend and I agreed that increased taxes were the only way to pay for this never before seen largesse. It started out with taxing the normal stuff like cigarettes. Taxes on soda and junk food followed [...]

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Congress is set to release the details of the Waxman-Markey Clean Energy & Security Act sometime next week. This bill is supposed to help limit carbon emissions in an attempt to slow global warming. Cap and trade should be addressed as a tax and a redistribution of wealth and nothing else.
The CBO’s report dated May [...]

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