My first wish is a consumption tax. Second, is a fair tax. Scrap the entire tax code (700 Billion compliance cost) and institute a 10% or 20% tax rate across the board, for every source of income, as a Constitutional amendment. Everyone pays. No exemptions. Government would become much leaner and efficient, overnight.
Good point. However, if there is ever some major change in the tax code, somebody is going to get the short end of the stick. Personally, I'm in favor of a tax system which more evenly spreads the costs and isn't immorally "progressive".... flat tax with everyone getting the same exclusion, consumption tax. One consolation... tax-deferred retirement plan money would receive the favorable treatment of a consumption tax.
More dishonesty from you. You are a consummate liar. To show just a few of the studies showing the 97% consensus...... A 2010 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (PNAS) reviewed publication and citation data for 1,372 climate researchers and drew the following two conclusions: (i) 97–98% of the climate researchers most actively publishing in the field support the tenets of ACC (Anthropogenic Climate Change) outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and (ii) the relative climate expertise and scientific prominence of the researchers unconvinced of ACC are substantially below that of the convinced researchers.[118] A 2013 paper in Environmental Research Letters reviewed 11,944 abstracts of scientific papers matching "global warming" or "global climate change". They found 4,014 which discussed the cause of recent global warming, and of these 97.1% endorsed the consensus position.[119] James L. Powell, a former member of the National Science Board and current executive director of the National Physical Science Consortium, analyzed published research on global warming and climate change between 1991 and 2012 and found that of the 13,950 articles in peer-reviewed journals, only 24 rejected anthropogenic global warming.[120] A follow-up analysis looking at 2,258 peer-reviewed climate articles with 9,136 authors published between November 2012 and December 2013 revealed that only one of the 9,136 authors rejected anthropogenic global warming.[121] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change
1. your studies have been completely debunked. the gensis of that b.s. stat is below also from your wikipedia quote. It was 75 of 77 of 10000. A poll performed by Peter Doran and Maggie Kendall Zimmerman at University of Illinois at Chicago received replies from 3,146 of the 10,257 polled Earth scientists. Results were analyzed globally and by specialization. 76 out of 79 climatologists who "listed climate science as their area of expertise and who also have published more than 50% of their recent peer-reviewed papers on the subject of climate change" believed that mean global temperatures had risen compared to pre-1800s levels. Seventy-five of 77 believed that human activity is a significant factor in changing mean global temperatures. Among all respondents, 90% agreed that temperatures have risen compared to pre-1800 levels, and 82% agreed that humans significantly influence the global temperature. Economic geologists and meteorologists were among the biggest doubters, with only 47 percent and 64 percent, respectively, believing in significant human involvement. The authors summarised the finding 2. we debunked powell study here. I gave you a link to his site and asked you to find papers which stated man man co2 causes warming. there were obviously less than 1% .