George Reisman, forfatter til hvad der måske er det mest omfattende værk om kapitalisme, Capitalism, hører jungletrommer, der forudser skatten vi alle har ventet på fra CO2-hystaderne: Udåndingsbeskatningen. Her fra http://georgereisman.com/blog/:
New York’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg and California’s Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger are reportedly preparing a joint statement citing the legitimacy and inevitability of taxes on CO2 emissions in general and on human exhalations of CO2 in particular.
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A high official in the New York City government, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that the Mayor and the Governor have arranged for a joint task force, financed at the Mayor’s expense, out of his personal fortune, to study the feasibility of adapting [the cap and trade system] to human exhalations.
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[K]ey Obama Administration officials and Congressional leaders are reportedly prepared to guarantee that “no American will ever be allowed to be in a position in which he cannot afford to pay for all of his reasonably necessary exhalations.” The Federal Government, they say, will provide whatever financial subsidies as may be necessary to assure everyone’s right to exhale on terms that he can afford.
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