Wall Street Journal attacks Gore, global warming fight

[AlGore-08.com]

And they use the same meme, "The Gore Tax", that was used in the 1990s to oppose bringing free internet service to public schools and libraries.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116189804216505223.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

The Gore Tax
October 27, 2006
It's not every American politician who can go to Europe and have a tax named after him.

Earlier this month, Al Gore spent a day in Brussels to promote his eco-mentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," and give a talk. "Our planet has a fever, and the fever has been getting steadily higher," he said. "It is in fact a full-scale planetary emergency." Within days, apparently so taken with the former U.S. Vice President's message, this low country's politicians were rewriting its tax laws.

Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt invoked his American visitor in proposing a new "environmentally friendly" tax on packages that would penalize users of aluminum or plastic and give them incentives to switch to paper or cardboard, whose production releases less CO2 into the atmosphere. The details have yet to be worked out, but the idea is for milk sold in, say, a plastic bottle, to cost more than milk sold in a cardboard container.

"We must take Al Gore's message seriously," Mr. Verhofstadt told parliament last week. The measure, introduced into the draft 2007 budget, was fast dubbed "the Gore tax." Also in the works are tax breaks for car pollution filters and deductions for energy-efficient investors.

(more, if you really need to see how low the WSJ has sunk... )

[Kiouni]

1. raise taxes to save the world?

i'll pass.....:sarcasm:

[applegrove]

2. Seems to me the corporations just want to put off regulations for global

warming as long as possible. Just like with the tabacco companies. They know tougher regulations are in the future..they will just pretend everything is safe and there is no problem or serious issue...until the evidence piles up to the top of their smoke-stacks. It is a game. Maximize profits in the short term.