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Tax Babies, Reduce Carbon
11 December 2007I knew it would eventually be proposed. Finally someone has said it. Tax babies.
$5,000 at delivery and $800 per year for every kid after the second one per couple.
To offset their carbon footprint, of course.
The idea is gaining some traction in the US with our greenies.
China that paragon of social planning is cited, of course as the example to follow.
Instead of offering tax incentives to help families, as Australia, the United States and many other nations do, Barry Walters suggests taxing couples that have more children than a set amount, probably two since that represents a one-to-one replacement, as measured in human beings on the planet.
But consider this, as urbanization occurs pollution decreases and energy efficiency increases.
European birthrates are close to non-replacement as it is now. I honestly believe Putin’s Soviet revival is a re-population plan.
Why does every socialist utopia involve imposing a forced compliance? I think there is a key point here, think about it, just about every save the earth movement or other great socialist cause has a forced planning component to it.
I’ve lost track of how many “greater good” arguments I’ve heard over my 48 years. Sometimes I wonder if it is not the forced component that is the real attraction.
Fine, great, go for it. Just who gets to decide? Who gets to work out the details? The government? Social agencies? Religious leaders? Planned Parenthood, oh there is a laugh.
No seriously, who gets to work out the details, who gets to decide what social causes require these drastic measures? While we are at it, maybe we can solve some other social ills like {fill in the blank} or like those people who {fill in the blank}. Oh, I’d really like to get rid of those {fill in the blanks}.
Who gets to decide? Nancy Pelosi? George W? The Pope? Putin? The United Nations? Maybe it should be me, I’m the sanest person I know.
Will certain groups be exempt? Maybe some pigs will be more equal than others.
One traveling Professor of great stature is adovcating Ebola as a quick and efficient and carbon netural means to decrease the world’s population by say, 90% should do it. Dr. Eric R. Pianka is his name. Sure can we start with the academics that contribute nothing?
Pianka received an enthusiastic and prolonged standing ovation. Later he received more applause from a banquet hall filled with more than 400 people when the president of the Texas Academy of Science presented him with a plaque naming him 2006 Distinguished Texas Scientist.
Sure you go first.
400 people in the room and not one got up and called him an idiot?
Professor Pianka said the Earth as we know it will not survive without drastic measures. Then, and without presenting any data to justify this number, he asserted that the only feasible solution to saving the Earth is to reduce the population to 10 percent of the present number.
He then showed solutions for reducing the world’s population in the form of a slide depicting the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. War and famine would not do, he explained. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon die if the population crisis is to be solved.
Yes, I see now, it’s all so clear. So simple, so effective, it’s just so efficient.
They laughed again when he proposed, with a discernable note of glee in his voice that, “We need to sterilize everybody on the Earth.â€
After noting that the audience did not represent the general population, a questioner asked, “What kind of reception have you received as you have presented these ideas to other audiences that are not representative of us?”
Pianka replied, “I speak to the converted!”
Yes, you do don’t you.
“After noting that the audience did not represent the general population”. No, of course they did not, they would be the 10%ers of course.
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