[quote]The Congressional Budget Office states that this would amount to a $175 tax on each American household (starting in 2020).[/quote]

To put it differently, overall net costs would average 0.2 percent of households’ after-tax income, or 15 cents per person per day.

[quote]The U.S. should wait until there is a global agreement on CO2 that includes China and India before committing to costly reductions in the United States.[/quote]

I heard that somewhere. Oh wait. I heard that from Bush Jr. It didn’t work then and it won’t work now. We won’t be able to pressure China and India unless we lead by example. And it does not cost us $1600/household to do that. It only costs 15 cents per person per day.

[quote]It is quite literally a “tax on breathing” and the people George Carlin famously referred to as “the owners” have been itching to get it implemented for some time now.[/quote]

Isn’t it a bit of a stretch to call this a “tax on breathing”? A ten mile trip in an average car creates as much CO2 as an adult person in a whole week.