04/03/08 More Taxes

Ready to fight global warming by paying more taxes? Yes, you heard correctly. "The climate change mitigation and adaptation fee" is the brain child of a strapped for cash Los Angeles County, and sounds a sour note as far as most voters in California are concerned. As well it should. The fee is being proposed as a way to fund public transportation projects that should ease traffic congestion which in turn should aid the fight against global warming. With California state legislature assuming that voters will actually pass the proposed fee, and assuming the fee, or tax; as a rose by any other name, will actually be used to fund said projects, and assuming that the motorists will actually car pool or use public transportation; it seems to me there is a lot of assuming going on! And you've heard the old adage about assuming anything. If we want to fight global warming we need to find another source of fuel other than fossil fuel, not tax an already overtaxed society. This proposed tax is just another way of treating the symptoms instead of the disease.