The 'Call Your Bluff' Tax

If we have to tax carbon dioxide emissions (and I don't think we do) then at least let's do it based on measured atmospheric temperature increases.  If the temperature goes up, so does the tax.  If the global warming crowd is wrong, though, and it remains constant or even drops, um, so does the tax.

We skeptics would be mollified and the advocates couldn't refuse -- that is unless stopping global warming isn't their real goal. 

Comments

[Bill]

Your last sentence says it all--just remove the word "unless". It is no accident that all the global warming nuts are also government-firsters.