I'm sure everyone else has heard about this, but the government...in fact, many governments around the world have begun taxing CO2 emissions or may have been doing so for awhile. It seems they may go as far as making taxpayers pay for breathing it out.
The questions this raises obviously being shouldn't air be considered free?
It's kind of an inborn right, the whole ability to breathe it and everything, and it's not like you can safely breathe less. Should we be taxed for turning oxygen into CO2 through a process we can neither control nor change? It makes sense to tax major chemical plants or other manufacturers if they have high emissions of anything toxic...but to tax individual people? Sounds like a get rich quick scheme. Air is free moving. The air I breathe out may be in Timbuktu two seconds after I exhale. How am I to know? Does that mean I have to pay the Timbuktu government people just in case?
Will our pets face the consquences as well? Who pays for all the strays or those packs of wild horses that are in movies? What will become of paintball guns and CO2 cartridge car races?
And how are Al Gore and the Meteorologists dealing with this?
And why can't we/why aren't we doing something more reasonable to counteract our debt? Have all the reasonable options been taken by terrorists?
Lastly, for this sort of tax, what would be a protest equivalent to the Boston Tea party? Filling up balloons and then letting them fly?
Most likely, I am simply misunderstanding whatever this tax is supposed to be about. But if it is like I think it is then I think I raised some pretty good questions...sort of.
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