So many elements, so many good excuses to tax them. That’s why we’re asking for SDA reader input. After all – being taxed into complete economic submission is “what Canadians want!”
(NOTE: This is a Decima-style poll, so be sure to think “Liberal friendly!”)
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!!
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1st Saint Nicolaas Army
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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!