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  broken links

  I was interested in reading the Time article, but the link doesn't seem to lead to the content.  Perhaps that could be fixed.On Obama muses on the connection between energy/climate and our other problems posted 1 year ago 7 Responses

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  Corporate Tax

  One of the main problems with Jon Rynn's suggestion to raise corporate taxes to reach a target portion of federal revenue is that with globalization it is far too easy for companies to shift revenue around to countries with lower tax rates.  This is especially true for industries where the value of intellectual property is hard to determine.

  A company like Microsoft can sell intellectual property to it's Irish subsidiary which does some ill-defined adding of value and then books a lot of revenue with tax going to the Irish government which is willing to take a smaller cut.

  I support the progressive individual income tax.  If high paid individuals want to actually live in countries with far lower individual income tax rates, so be it.  But having a corporate tax rate higher than other countries simply leads to offshoring of business and jobs.

  Highly profitable companies are good for everyone, especially considering that so much equity is owned by everyday middle class people through pensions and retirement accounts.

  Maybe progressives should consider lowering corporate tax rates to be competitive with countries like Ireland and then raise dividend and capital gains tax rates.On Busted: Majority of emissions cuts can come from public spending posted 1 year, 3 months ago 6 Responses

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  Annual kWh?

  Could you explain what an annual kWh is.  They were not yet teaching this concept when I got my electrical engineering degree.  It seems an odd unit of measure since it involves squaring time.On We can do more than he calls for, but I would settle for Gore's objective posted 1 year, 3 months ago 8 Responses

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  Left me Guessing

  Biodiversivist,

  Wish you had repeated for a fourth time.  Now you've left me guessing.

  Perhaps electrified public transportation?  Maybe... yes?On I read a letter to the editor, the other day, I opened, and read it, it said they was suckas posted 1 year, 6 months ago 22 Responses

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  Granted

  Granted it's a spokesperson for an industry, but...

  As pointed out, even without nuclear power reactors the world is still dependent on nuclear technology, such as widespread use in medicine, food safety, research, etc.

  What is the better solution to deal with this waste...

  1) Aggregate the waste from around the world to a few countries where facilities can be built as safe as possible and permanently staffed (or until such time as governments collapse and we forget where the site is).

  or

  2)Have waste collect all around the world in small quantities, either stored permanently in temporary storage or disappear through unmonitored means likely ending up in the environment.

  It often seems to me as if some anti-nuke folks accept (promote) the very unsafe storage of existing waste because they believe (hope) that by preventing dealing with it, future waste will not be generated.  In my opinion this ignores two factors.

  1. We already have lots of waste that really should be dealt with.

  2. Even without civilian power reactors (which will likely be built overseas even if not here), we have military nuclear waste and we have industrial nuclear waste.
  On Should we take Italian nuclear waste? posted 1 year, 6 months ago 6 Responses