Originally Posted By: Tempest
If you have to pay more for energy, you have less money to spend and employ people with. Just about everyone in the country realized this when gas went to $4. I guess this effect was lost on you.
Paying people to dig holes and fill them up or building bridges, roads, and airports to no where is not good for the economy. USEFUL things must be produced in order for the economy, and those in it, to prosper.
Paying taxes on a false "pollutant" is not productive, or useful. It does however bring in lots of tax money to a government ravenous for money, however.
Since, under your theory it doesn't matter who spends the money, you should be perfectly happy with energy taxes going up by 500% or so??
Isn't having less money for people to SPEND and more money for the government to reduce deficit more "productive"? because it reduces future taxes? Isn't less tax because of less government deficit in the future, rather than 10k LCD TV now, is more productive to the society?
I though this is suppose to trickle down.