Posted by
BLOGASSAULT on Thursday, January 01, 2009 9:12:18 PM
All this time I thought James Hansen, chief of the Goddard Institute of Space Studies and global warming alarmist, was interested in solving the climate crisis. Come to find out he is just like all the other lefty nutters; what he is really interested in is spreading mine and yours wealth.
Here is a letter that Mr. Hansen wrote to President elect Obama on a proposed carbon tax to help under priviledged citizens.
The public will support the tax if it is returned to them, equal shares on a per capita basis (half shares for children up to a maximum of two child-shares per family), deposited monthly in bank accounts. No large bureaucracy is needed. A person reducing his carbon footprint more than average makes money. A person with large cars and a big house will pay a tax much higher than the dividend
The carbon tax has social benefits. It is progressive. It is useful to those most in need in hard times, providing them an opportunity for larger dividend than tax.
“Cap and trade” generates special interests, lobbyists, and trading schemes, yielding non productive millionaires, all at public expense. The public is fed up with such business. Tax with 100% dividend, in contrast, would spur our economy, while aiding the disadvantaged, the climate, and our national security. [...]
Like Mr. Hansen, I too think cap and trade is a scam. But tying redistribution of wealth into a carbon tax is purely a far left idea that will accomplish nothing.