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"How many different trailer parks have you lived in?"

Jimbo, ....I think you could be missing the point. My dad owned his own business. They made laminate counter tops in Chicago. Some years were good, others were lean. Even though my dad was 2nd generation (he might as well have been fresh-off-the-boat)

When other kids were splurging at record shops or wherever, I would walk in, feign interest, and quickly wait outside. Even when I was old enough to date my father urged (pffftt, insisted) that "throwing money around" attracts the wrong kind of women.

It's a million little things that I'm still trying to understand but no, you needn't have been evicted to have been "brought up poor". IMHO

What is needed is an across-the-board public carbon tax on all carbon-emitting activities.

More tax?

I may consider it if you agree to also levying a carbon tax on all new born children anywhere in the world.

Peter P,

I think it would be enough to tax the children's carbon usage, just like anyone else's. I would prefer to keep it simple. No need to make up complex rules that ties into other activities. That is how we end up with the US tax system.

No, I think Birth Tax has more simplicity. It is the carbon tax equivalent of flat tax. :)