Helium = Because we're almost out!

Argon Because it's in all those squirly light bulbs.

Chlorine.
Because it is essential - just like carbon dioxide is.

And we all know politicians like to tax things we all need, have to keep buying.

A ban on chlorine ? Yes, it's true - the nut-jobs at Greenpeace wanted to do just that.

[Consider chlorine: The Post quotes me as stating that the reason I oppose Greenpeace's call for a global ban on chlorine is that "you can't ban an element." This fails to reflect the most important points. At the time Greenpeace was adopting this policy I pointed out to them that adding chlorine to drinking water was the biggest advance in the history of public health. I also reminded them that the majority of our pharmaceuticals are based on chlorine chemistry. And for good measure I suggested that the best way to deliver the slightly chlorinated drinking water to the general public was in a PVC (polyvinyl chloride) pipe. They behaved as if these were minor exceptions to the general rule that chlorine should be banned worldwide, so I had to leave.] Patrick Moore

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/05/12/patrick-moore-on-where-greenpeace-has-it-wrong-chlorine-forests-genetic-modification-and-nuclear-energy.aspx

"Instead of taking this seriously, what do the Conservatives offer? A cartoon, a talking grease spot," Dion said in Parliament on Monday.

"When are the Conservatives going to stop insulting Canadians and offer a real plan to tackle climate change instead of cartoons and a campaign of lies?"

1. A grease spot has more sense than Stephane Dion, actually.

2. When are the Liberals going to admit that there is no unusual climate change other than we are definitely in a cooling trend.

3. If we wait long enough, we will eventually be in a warming trend, then after a while another cooling trend. That's the nature of a ball in space whose main influence is a gigantic nuclear fusion furnace.

I think Americium should be taxed the most because everyone knows it's to blame for everything.

C'mon
You all know Dion and Suzuchi wants a tax on O.
Oxygen is why the world is screwed up, and we need it don't we?
It causes fires
It causes rust
it causes peple
Bush uses it
Harper uses it
its evil, (look what it does to Carbon)
Tax it

G

Hey, let*s hask Dion!

Dion, what helement to tax next?

Hits not heasy to pick one, sooo, we just tax dem hall. No favoritism in da LPC pardy.
= TG

That should be Suezuci (peple is ok)
G

Lets just tax liberals, apparently they like it.

While I don't believe any *element* should be banned, I am very much in favour of a complete ban on dihydrogen monoxide. :-)

The Conservatives should implement a 10 cent per liter carbon tax, thereby becoming the greenest feel good federal party in the country. Then eliminate all the other federal gas taxes (like the 1.5 cent “deficit elimination” tax and the GST tax on tax) currently on fuel. It's really a win/win plan. All the evil polluters in the country (you know who you are ...) will have to then pay to put their carbon into the air but it will be revenue neutral like Dion's plan.

At least we can be sure that, with Dion's Dual Citizenship, Francium will never be taxed.

You have to be Fermium with the Halfnium-wit liberals. Otherwise they will try to Cesium all of your Aurum.

I’m casting a write in vote for Osmium. It was named after the grandfather of that toothy entertainment family from Utah. You know, the clan that breeds like Mormons and we all know what that is doing to Mother Gaia!

Let's get serious and ban this noxious substance:Dihydrogen Monoxide.
http://www.dhmo.org/
It's an oldy but a goody.

"The Truth about DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE
Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) is perhaps the single most prevalent of all chemicals that can be dangerous to human life. Despite this truth, most people are not unduly concerned about the dangers of Dihydrogen Monoxide. Governments, civic leaders, corporations, military organizations, and citizens in every walk of life seem to either be ignorant of or shrug off the truth about Dihydrogen Monoxide as not being applicable to them. This concerns us."

Upsidasium is even worse. Tailings from Coppertone’s strip mining operations are continuously floating up and punching holes in the ozone layer.

What do you mean the west doesn't have Iron?? What about all them old tractors that are parked along the Fence?? Why do you think they chose Regina as the site for IPSCO? I actually have Saskatchewan relatives who are in the iron and steel industry! My aunt does ironing in a laundry while my uncle goes out and steals!!

Would putting a tax on argon reduce the amount of piracy on the high seas?
ARG!
If it saves one.......

I love it when polls let you submit comments. I'm surprised there were'nt more he-he-he!

After much thought I have to go with Calcium.

Argon is used in mig welding and would hurt our Saskatchewan manufacturing sector.

Chlorine is out if it would make the tree huggers happy.

Hydrogen is out. Ballard and Shec Labs would be out of business.

Iron - goes into a lot of things we buy.

Nickle - Not concerned about Sudbury, but there's Thompson to consider.

Uranium - Duh!

Gotta be Calcium, besides I'm big boned..where's my rebate cheque. Likely wouldn't hurt me much if we picked Na, what this world needs is low sodium salt.

The carbon tax is every politicions wet dream. We can finally be taxed on nothing.......for nothing.It just does not get better than this. This even beats banning R12 refrigerants to save the ozone layer.

"Tailings from Coppertone’s strip mining"
Priceless

Peples at Starbucks at UBC agree O is evil, it must be banned and taxed.
No discussion is allowed as the science is settled.
Proceeds from the upcomming docuhorror "An Inconvienent Breath" are tax exempt and will go toward adhoc scientific research as to why Lizzy Mae wasn't hurt in the making of the film.

I suggest a 10% tax on the 1125 billionaires at the Forbes 500 site. This would create a fund of 438.27 billion dollars to fight global warming. Who else is better to pay than the elite who are the largest resource consumers and also beneficiary of the resources consumed.
The tax could become an annual amount. Look at the good that could be done.

I'm confused, I couldn't find Bs in the table...

I'm confused, I couldn't find Bs in the table...

If Guess What is successful in getting a 10% tax collected from the Forbes 500 I will volunteer to administrate the fund,taking only a small per diem.Trust me.

Hydrogenated oxide. It's everywhere. In everything. Tax it to make it go away;)

Adscamium, I maintain, should always be tax free.

Decima gets results for the Liberals and Liberals know it. If their polling were accurate we'd be heading to the polls because, according to them, the Liberals would win. Dion would be King of the Hill and could bring in his carbon tax plan and turn us all bilious GREEN.

Calcium:

There are just too many bonehead Liberals in Canada in need of softening up.

dihydrogen oxide.

Go for the two'fer.

We should tax the BBQ circuit. Afterall BBQ's emit greenhouse gases!

Let's tax noble gases. How dare they be better than the rest of us!

Let's tax noble gases. How dare they be better than the rest of us!

Well, I suppose if you're such a buffoon to be $60 billion over budget in spending promises, you'll need to tax everything. How about flatulence?

Oxygen - it is only a mater of time anyway.

Dihydrogen monoxide. Just a matter of time.

Hockey Jinglium

The CBC will require its cut of the profit from the song they don't own.

Obviously H. Looking to the future, you can see that it is an integral component of so many human necessities.

Water of course and we are already hearing UN rumblings about a future world-wide shortage.

Methane CH4 is know to be yet another harmful GHG. So all gas producing livestock would be fair game.

Then there is the possibility of hydrogen fuel cells.

Let's not leave out the energy industry. Sour natural gas sour gas often releases H2S and H2 is used in the oil industry for uprgradeing.

All in all a very lucrative potential new tax source.

Scandium and the Lanthanides should be hit with big taxes. Off in their own group, who do they think they are? The noble gases?

When liberal MPs rant in the HofC, they cause emissions of something, so lets tax liberal vocal emissions. Let's start small, 100.00/word should do it.

I chose Iron.

What better element to focus on given that the leftards want to crush our way of life to the point where we have regressed beyond the begining of the Iron Age?

C. Carbon. The Final Solution.
Carbon is the alchemist's pot of gold, El Dorado, Nirvana, Heaven, Midas's dream. Carbon is the final solution for that old question asked/searched for by every State: Where is the Golden Goose of Taxation?

Levi's last chapter is entitled "Carbon".

"If the elaboration of carbon were not a common daily occurrence, on the scale of billions of tons a week, wherever the green of a leaf appears, it would by full right deserve to be called a miracle."
...-

"In 1975 Primo Levi published 'The Periodic Table'."
http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/webprojects2003/ashby/primo_levi_the_chemist.htm

There's also Strongium, very scarce, found only in Beijing.

The only reason there are poor metals is that the others are taking more than their fair share. Tax the lot of them, I say.

There are the long carbon chain molecules that ought to be taxed as well.

For instance, Obominal, to which the MSM is currently addicted and is apparently enjoying its euphoric high.

Well known as its precursor was Hillicaine, which was snorted.

Hmm, aren't these elements already taxed if you buy them?
Anyway, I'd like to know what you cons know regarding the details of this Liberal tax shift. I'm hearing much whining and wimping from the right about the carbon tax, so I'm guessing you must know some details if you're making such a fuss. Or are you con whining for whining sake as usual? One would think that you'd wait until you know what it's all about before you start complaining about it.
Of course I'm sure cons would still cry about the carbon tax, even if it meant more money in your pocket, just because it's a Liberal plan.

Since there's going to be a lot of warmers that require it when things don't work our for them and they can't reconcile it, tax LITHIUM.

Don't bother taxing Calcium - you don't get blood from a rock. However, there is iron in blood, and iron is essential for developing carbon deposits. So...if I was a crackpot environment against every form of development, tax the #%@*! outta iron.

Incidently, China's "Great Leap Forward" which caused the starvation of 20 million people was all about...iron.

Maybe that's Chairman Suzuki's next proposal - a blood tax to begin the next "Great Leap".

I couldn't find the element Ig on the periodic table, t'is the one I think should be taxed to death

Ig===Immygrant

Luckily enough, CTV has found an 'expert' to claim that the Conservative's ads were 'Dishonest and Lies' yet the 'expert' didn't demonstrate one claim in the ads which was either dishonest or a lie ...

Unbiased reporting at its best!

Maximum temp yesterday; 14. Temperature at noon today; 12. Nuff said.

The good news about the car-ban tax is that it might be the issue that sends Ralphy Goodale to pasture.

Step-on DeYawn's vision of Saskatchewan is a perennial have-not province with no energy industry, no cars and no guns. Fa-que Step-on and Ralph!

A few minutes on the Environment Canada site produced the following comparisons of 2008 monthly mean temperatures in Winnipeg with the long term averages:

January 2008 -17.0 C long term average -17.8 C
February 2008 -18.2 C long term average -13.6 C
March 2008 - 8.4 C long term average - 6.1 C
April 2008 3.2 C long term average 4.0 C
May 2008 8.4 C long term average 12.0 C
June 2008 12.9 C long term average 17.0 C

How many more months like this before we starting hearing more about lack of sunspots and Dalton Minimum and a lot less about capping or banning chemicals on earth? How many more months before fraud trials for the likes of Gore, Strong, Suzuki, Monbiot, May, Layton and Dion?

Noble Gases? Who the hell do they think they are. They're no better than anyone else. tax them Tax Them All!!!

Oxygen will be the next one taxed by the Liberals. I can just picture a pencil necked geeky Deputy Minister in the Department of Finance advising his bosses that they need to tax another element as despite all the money they have raked in on taxing carbon, they now need to cover the shortfall in income taxes.

The obvious solution is to tax people on their use of oxygen and they could make it a progressive tax, the longer you live the more you pay. And if you've had the temerity to live a long time you should be paying more for all that extra you've consumed over time.

The tax could start at $1000 per year for an infant and range up to $100,000 per year if you lived to be 100, just to punish you for all that extra consumption.

Well if we want to eliminate greenhouse gases then Hydrogen is actually the first logical choice. The most common green house gas is water vapour after all (H2O).

The next logical choice would be oxygen since is a large part of both water vapour and carbon dioxide.

I believe Carbon is a very distant third.

I'll go with Hydrogen

Given my grandfathers both hung around airships like the Hindenburg.

But then we always knew that Dion Quixote was going to go tilting after lighter than hot air combustibles!!

Cheers

Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht
Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”

Well, a "Carbon" tax is surely a tax on breathing, as Carbon Dioxide is an output. Let's complete the cycle and tax Oxygen. When I was a kid, old folks used to complain that the government will end up taxing breathing; it has come true.

I think there should be a "Jogger's Tax" as they willfully generate more CO2 than necessary; evil people.

Lay off the Helium,. though, I need that for diving.

Tax Cadmium; it's the decent thing to do.

Harper should beat the liberals to the punch by instituting a truly revenue neutral carbon tax.
One where no one pays and there are no civil servants to collect, audit, regulate or refund the tax.
The last tax that was revenue neutral I believe was the GST that takes from the rich and gives to the richer. Also the 1.5¢ deficit tax on gas was supposed to revenue neutral when the deficit was eliminated was it not?

And we have to remember, Income Tax was placed on Canadians as a temporary measure, introduced in 1917.

Still waiting.

Personally, I think we should avoid a tax on those in the category of "poor metals". I mean, after all, they are "poor", and have clearly suffered enough...

*snif*

seebeserium is an inactive ion and false element and can be taxed on T.V.!

Some scientist say that the major building block of the universe is hydrogen because it's the most plentiful element but my theory is the universe is made of stupidity because it is MORE plentiful than hydrogen.

We should tax stupidity instead...

In Chuck Norris's periodic table there is only one element:

The element of SURPRISE!

Oh my gawd, it's true. Note the following statistics regarding envelopment in dihydrogen monoxide. Sorry if they are a little dated:
2004 - 12 deaths, 5 female and 7 males.Only 33% happened on weekends. All ocurred between 50 and 150 feet from safety. No victims were aged between 18 and 24. Saskatoon had a 7% increase in 04. Booze was involved 33% of the time.

More info here (small pdf file): http://www.lifesavingsociety.sk.ca/pdf/report.pdf

I read a while back of a "concerned Citizen's" group doing a presentation to a City Council somewhere on the West Coast (where else) asking them to BAN the dangerous chemical Dihydrogen Monoxide. It was pointed out that this chemical kills hundreds of people every year and as responsible stewards of our very lives the Councilors should ban this for everyone's protection. The substance wasd duly banned by a vote of 7-0 and the "concerned citizens" then announced to the press that the MORONS running the city had just banned WATER. It just proves that pols are the most useless dweebs on the planet and are somehow genetically predisposed to being both.

JDN: re: Americium

Dang! You beat me to the punchline, brother!