Should Tax Dollars Support Green Technology?
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17 comments:
No, we are taxed to death now!
Hell, no!!!!
No. If it was any good at all the free market would make millions off of it. Tha fact that the government has to prop it up says that it will never produce enough electric to pay for itself. GE just closed a bunch of wind farms overseas because of economic failure. That should say it all.
YES (and I am a Republican)
Let's do our part to help this earth. We only have this one folks.
anonymous 11:31, no smart republican would make such a statement, nice try.
Look at what the democrats just did with the solar companies and the billions of dollars thrown away that will never be truly investigated.
Our democratic version of government has been pulling this kind of crap for far too many years. Then Americans are somehow satisfied when ONE person is thrown in jail and no funding is ever returned.
They pulled this crap with the energy act and now with solar. This republican isn't that stupid or forgetful.
i think their should be a certain amount of funding going to research. not the all out BS that spews frmo al gores lips though.
No. If there is a commercial demand for green technology capitalism will support it with no help from the government. Any technology or commercial venture that can't survive on its own without financial support from the government should be allowed to fail. Liberals and environmental wackos need to learn that a free market will determine who the winners and losers will be based solely on their commercial viability.
No. As far as the windmills/turbines are concerned we need look no futher than the various Amish settlements countywide. They tried them to operate water pumps and they bombed. Most Amish now operate their water pumps with some form of compressed air.
nope
tax dollars should not support any business.
if it cant make it on its own then its not worth having
No. Let these wackos pay their own way. They'll get rich if they're right; dry up and blow away if they're wrong.
If it were left to simple capitalism big oil companies will drill til the very last drop of oil is gone, then stand around and watch as people pay astronomic amounts per gallon. Economics 101, supply and demand. Oil is a finite resource, we are always gonna have a shrinking supply, we cant make more. Alternative energy isn't just an idea, or liberal agenda, its a necessity.
Tax subsidies for big oil, but no tax dollars for green technology? Whose not looking out for future generations now? All you naysayers must have investments in fossil fuels.
1:27 - Subsidize the monies green companies earn with tax credits - just like the oil companies. Don't use tax dollars for them to try to figure out how to make something that has bee a total failure work.
To Rick and 11:27,
Please consult your facts before spouting BS.
The gov. propped up oil companies for decades with subsidies that allowed them to survive plenty of "bust" years.
Gov. subsidies are apart of what allows US farms to be some of the most productive in the world.
And many of our most profitable exports (heavy equipment, airplanes, aerospace) rely on some form of gov. support (loan garuntees to foreign customers, tax breaks, etc.) that allowed them to become profitable.
But now since green tech. doesn't conveniently fit your political agenda, they shouldn't get a dime.
I think we should still give tax breaks to individuals or businesses that install solar or wind energy sources.The government investment would be at time of installation only. We could have helped install millions of windmills with the money we wasted on companies building solar panels.
Forgot to add the indirect subsidies to the health care industry through all the tax dollars that go into research and development. But no no, the buck stops at trying to create alternative energy sources.
no no no no and no! please enough already!
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