Bloomberg Endorses Obama

Originally posted by utherpendragon
Behavorial change through taxation.
The state of NY is doing that w/tobacco products.
Following that logic the government could/should heap large taxes on peoples electric,natural gas,coal and oil usage.
Large taxes on gasoline,cars over a certain size and wieght, more toll roads and bridges,etc,etc. Just tax them to the point where they think twic ...[text shortened]... ce,if you will, over our irresponsible over consuption of energy.
Are you on board with that ?

I didn't say anything about "heaping" "large" taxes, but yeah, petrol taxes in the US are certainly far too low.

As for where they should go, bridging the deficit seems like a reasonable option.

Originally posted by Soothfast
Climate change issues have been neglected throughout much of the campaign season. Nice to see it entering the narrative before the finish line.

Yeh, it's always good to include mystical theories in politics.

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
I didn't say anything about "heaping" "large" taxes, but yeah, petrol taxes in the US are certainly far too low.

As for where they should go, bridging the deficit seems like a reasonable option.

"petrol taxes in the US are certainly far too low."

At the pump, including state taxes, government collects roughly six times what the oil companies do on their product.

Do you believe than any taxes are too high?

Originally posted by Teinosuke
Cut energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions?

And that will save us from ecological Armageddon?

A made up crisis, and a solution which if the crisis exists isn't close to enough.

Originally posted by normbenign
Yeh, it's always good to include mystical theories in politics.

Not as mystical as trickle-down economics.

What's your position on biological evolution and the Big Bang?

Originally posted by Soothfast
Not as mystical as trickle-down economics.

What's your position on biological evolution and the Big Bang?

That discussion of them belongs in the science forum.

Originally posted by dryhump
That discussion of them belongs in the science forum.

This is the debate forum. Do you think either evolution or the Big Bang is open to debate?