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Save the Planet...Tax Our Babies

By Janet Evans
Monday, Dec 10 2007, 01:30 PM


Here we go AGAIN . . .

More Enviro wackos spewing GREEN bile. 

And once again, it's related to CHILDREN.

COUPLES who have more than two children should be charged a lifelong tax to offset their extra offspring's carbon dioxide emissions, a medical expert says.

The report in an Australian medical journal called for parents to be charged $5000 a head for every child after their second, and an annual tax of up to $800.

And couples who were sterilized would be eligible for carbon credits under the controversial proposal.

Perth specialist Professor Barry Walters was heavily critical of the $4000 baby bonus, saying that paying new parents extra for every baby fuelled more children, more emissions and "greenhouse-unfriendly behaviour".

Instead, it should be replaced with a "baby levy" in the form of a carbon tax in line with the "polluter pays" principle, he wrote in the latest Medical Journal of Australia.

"Every family choosing to have more than a defined number of children should be charged a carbon tax that would fund the planting of enough trees to offset the carbon cost generated by a new human being," said Prof Walters, an obstetrician at King Edward Memorial Hospital.

Sustainable Population Australia suggested a maximum of two, he said.

By the same reasoning, contraceptives like diaphragms and condoms, as well as sterilization procedures, should attract carbon credits, the specialist said.

"As doctors, I believe we need to think this way," he wrote in a letter to the journal.

"As Australians I believe we need to be less arrogant.

"As citizens of the world, I believe we deserve no more population concessions than those in India or China."

Family groups rejected the calls, saying larger families used less energy than smaller ones and should not be penalized.

Read the article from news.com.au  Baby Tax needed to Save Planet    ç here

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So now it's "medical experts" going ENVIRO on us. 

The family "unit" is becoming "unglued" because of these loons.

I guess we're just supposed to stop having children! 

Eventually all of the parks will be filled with old people and no children playing in them. 

Have a baby, plant a tree . . .


 

Comments

David Murphy   

Maybe the greens should kill themselves and let their family members get a carbon credit.  Nobody really has to be alive.  Those of us who are living must be very selfish.  On a serious note, nobody is being forced to use carbon based energy.  If one chooses, they can walk everywhere they go, never patronize any business using electricity, make their own clothes by hand as long as they use natural products, and live in a shelter built using no carbon based energy and live a dark unheated place.  Also most natural products  involve carbon emissions because carbon is part of life.          

December 10, 2007 7:59 PM

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