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Are you for cap and trade? giving cheap prescription zocor billions to limited big corporations to develop new technology. (till the government dollar runs out). vs. Individual tax credits to homeowners and businesses? A rush of new buyers looking to ‘go green’, would this spur businesses (especially small mom & pop start-ups) to be innovative and create new technology? at a far less consumer cost?
Cap-and-trade gives pollution reductions a value in the marketplace, the system prompts technological and process innovations that reduce pollution down to or beyond required levels. This point is not theoretical; experience has shown these results. An active cap-and-trade market enables those who can reduce pollution cheaply to earn a return on their pollution reduction investment by selling extra allowances. It enables those who can’t reduce pollution as cheaply to purchase allowances at a lower cost than the cost of reducing their own emissions. It enables all participants to meet the total emissions cap cost-effectively. And it gives all emitters incentives to innovate to find the least-cost solutions for total pollution control.
You don’t understand what cap and trade is, do you?
Cap and Trade is an efficient mechanism for pricing externalities such as CO2 emissions. It worked for Sulfur Dioxide, it’s working in Europe for CO2.
Do you even know what an "externality" is? Didn’t think so.
You just want another tax cut.
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Leftists have seen that guilt-tripping is not good enough. The people must be forced to comply with their standards of green morality.
Screw choice! MAKE the companies and the people be GREEN!
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Mom & Pop start-ups have sure advanced since I was a lad. Back in my day, they couldn’t develop alternative energy solutions quicker than scientists.
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Cap and trade will spur economic development in less polluting technology and increased investment in cleaner energy production.
if you don’t comprehend this, you don’t comprehend how investment decisions are made.
matter of fact, how many carbon emission credits do you think nuclear power companies will need to buy?
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if you can name one G5 country that is cleaner than the US then name it.
America is the cleanest, greenest country on earth
and it was done in spite of Nazi Pelosi and AlGore’s O2 spewing jets
Liberals are a waste of space
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How exactly does cap and trade give billions to corporations? Let’s get this straight: corporations are given/sold permits to emit a certain amount of pollutants, those who successfully lower their emissions are able to sell their permits to corporations who can’t do it as cheaply just yet. Those who were given permits make 100% profit, however, their incentive to lower emissions is still there because they want to sell those permits, those who have to buy those permits have incentive to reduce emissions because they want to sell the permits they just bought or not have to buy anymore. Where do the corporations get the billions of taxpayer dollars from? Just curious…
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That’s a theoretical question. Free markets have been proven to fail to do the right thing when it’s not as profitable as doing the wrong thing.
It’s sad, but greed has made government intervention an evil necessity.
Where are your facts on cost? Where are your studies on how people would behave with these tax credits?
Again, it’s just theory and ideology, which have proven ineffective time after time after time.
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Cap-and-trade gives pollution reductions a value in the marketplace, the system prompts technological and process innovations that reduce pollution down to or beyond required levels. This point is not theoretical; experience has shown these results. An active cap-and-trade market enables those who can reduce pollution cheaply to earn a return on their pollution reduction investment by selling extra allowances. It enables those who can’t reduce pollution as cheaply to purchase allowances at a lower cost than the cost of reducing their own emissions. It enables all participants to meet the total emissions cap cost-effectively. And it gives all emitters incentives to innovate to find the least-cost solutions for total pollution control.
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individual tax credits involves every american to do their part…..cap and trade only benefits the rich corporations and forces the loss of jobs in the long run
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Nope – you are missing the point – green isn’t the issue money is – the dems want to tax us into oblivion
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Cap and trade, or any carbon tax credits for that matter, are schemes designed to capitalize on people wanting to go green, so as to take money from your wallet and filter it up into Obama’s budget where he will then find a way to spend it on a special intirest program instead of paying off our gigantic (thanks to him) national debt.
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How about neither.
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The ‘cap and trade’ bill contains both.
The costs to businesses will be passed on to the consumer and the tax ‘credits’ that are included (tat supporters of the bill say will ‘offset’ some of those costs) will be paid for by the taxpayer (read consumer also). While putting in place rule that will make it more expensive for companies to compete worldwide. Which will move businesses, jobs and tax revenue overseas. This in turn will put a greater burden on the consumer and drive costs even higher.
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The Cap and Trade system involves trading of emission allowances, where the total allowance is strictly limited or ‘capped’. A regulatory authority established the cap which is usually considerably lower than the historic level of emissions.
Some high polluters have been buying credits from the low polluters. That doesn’t solve the problem of polluting emissions.
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Permanent tax credits to go green is much more effective than cap and trade.
It creates demand, spurs private investment in a green infrastructure. And its voluntary. Those who want it will benefit from it.
However, cap and trade, drags everyone into the mess, kicking and screaming at their expense ….. except for the "ins" who will profit from it.
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How about letting the markets drive it? Such as, if there becomes a point at which the initial expense of investing in green technology gets to the stage that it is feasible as a mainstream option (particularly as times are hard) to invest in it as a consumer, then so be it. Private industry is far more capable of producing results than the government is, and if there is a chance that commercial enterprises can gain from such advances they will pour what is necessary into becoming the leading edge of such a shift. That is the beauty of capitalism that is now being snuffed out before our very eyes. Those with money are getting it into safe harbors as quickly as possible, rather than putting it into such technologies at this time, for they realize that the gig is up, and this government seeks nothing other than to own all means of production and ascribe what it produces without concern for the long term ramifications of doing so.
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