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Senate panel passes bill to block EU airline law
(Reuters) - A Senate committee passed a bill on Tuesday authorizing the transportation secretary to bar U.S. airlines from complying with a European Union law that would require them to pay for carbon emissions on flights to and from Europe. (in.reuters.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
now i live the UK and i find that plan simply stupid if they want to simulate growth in europe find other was invest in property and help fund re-generation projects not charge forigen airlines and countries to fly in and out of european airports. i back the american senaters, the reason being is american people need to re-build there economy as much as europe. but america need to invest in three people first before even thinking about other countries. i know we need to protecte our planet but that is in the long run can't plans like that wait until the global economic down turn ends.
Just who is the Holier than thou Government that decided to declare who and what we should be taxed for? And where does this money go? Does it help to reverse whatever alleged damage carbon emissions area allegedly making to the planet?
When will we ever get it thru our thick skulls that no matter what we do, we cannot stop pollution. I take that back, we could stop populating the earth...Perhaps the lesser amount of people here would lessen the need to tear up the countryside and plants that suck up CO2 and convert it to Oxygen so we can build concrete jungles....The more we built mega cities the more vegetation that goes bye, bye, the lesser amount of nice green plant to soak up all that CO2...
When will we ever get it thru our thick skulls that no matter what we do, we cannot stop pollution. I take that back, we could stop populating the earth...Perhaps the lesser amount of people here would lessen the need to tear up the countryside and plants that suck up CO2 and convert it to Oxygen so we can build concrete jungles....The more we built mega cities the more vegetation that goes bye, bye, the lesser amount of nice green plant to soak up all that CO2...
Well dont you know, by taxing companies, the earth will get the message to stop "climate change".
while I can understand the rationale behind why the EU is implementing this (appease the green movement, make it appear they're actually doing something), I can't quite fathom what they think they will accomplish by taxing carbon emissions. if such money is gained by them, I find it hard to believe that they would be able to accomplish anything with it, besides perhaps paying for a campaign to inform everybody how much they've "accomplished." the main effect i see this tax having is creating lots and lots of annoyed passengers and plenty of economic conflict. understandable, but senseless.
Politicians will take people's money anyway that the people will let them.
My suggestion is don't go there. See how that works out for eu if we stay home in droves.
Does that mean the Secretary of Transportation has the power *not* to implement the proposed law? If that is true, then why make a law, at all? Presumably, the inserted compromise language is designed to appear bi-partisan in order to make it palatable to the full Senate, rather than to directly deal with the EU’s naked, sordid attempt to tax other nations’ citizens. (Oh, and while we’re at it, let’s cede sovereignty to the ICAO.)
Assuming the full Senate passes the bill, The House of Representatives ought to consider the bill in a more thoughtful manner and propose language that would have teeth and immediate effect.