Would you still support Cap and Trade legislation if CO2 had no impact on

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No. The whole purpose is to capture the total costs of decisions that companies make and to bring those costs into the decision-making process. If there is no damage caused to the world, then no costs should be attached to emitting greenhouse gasses. Only if a company is using a resource should it pay for that resource. An important element to cap-and-trade is the option to invest in offsets rather than reduce pollutants; without benefits there is no value to those offsets. Cap-and-trade is a free market approach to capture all costs of production.
 
No, I would not support a Cap and Trade system that would force companies to go in a direction that they are already heading in just faster with more dire consequences to those companies. As a matter of fact, depending on what industry I was in, I would pick up and move to a Nation that is exempt from Cap and Trade and that has little environmental laws and over a billion workers.
 
If the taxes were reduced elsewhere, I wouldn't have as big of a problem with it. Government interfering with private enterprise typically results in corruption and inefficiencies. The biggest problem is, it is more about growing the power and intrusion of government into our lives.
 
No. To much corruption in governments around the world, including ours. It will just make money for the favored, and screw the rest. In our country, it will probably be the taxpayer that is screwed.
 
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