Tax Shift Presentation
This entry was posted on 4/29/2008 10:42 PM and is filed under Tax Shifting,Presentation,Global Peak Oil,Elected representatives,Global Warming,Gasoline.
Madison's City Channel 12 recorded the April 30, 2008 Rotary Club of Madison presentation -
If you don't have "Realplayer" (a free download) - click on the blue and yellow icon. Then scroll down to "streaming video: special presentations" and the last item under "April 2008". The tax shift presentation starts after 12 1/2 minutes. (PowerPoint is below)
Innovative Solutions to Energy-Related Challenges
Overview -
Dane County Supervisor Brett Hulsey, an environmental consultant with Better Environmental Solutions will present cost-effective actions that save lives, reduce pollution and create jobs. Wisconsinites send $20 billion a year out of state for energy. Brett will present specific examples of projects – such as burning biomass - and recommend next steps as solutions that would enable Wisconsin to make 2/3 of its own energy and create 400,000 jobs while reducing air pollution in the process.
Paul Riehemann, fellow Rotarian and blog host for www.Solve4Biggies.com, which was started in 2007, says the best solution is a phased-in, federal tax shift from income to non-renewable energy. Decreasing taxes on the ‘good’ stuff (income) and increasing taxes on the ‘bad’ stuff (non-renewable energy) will create real incentives for energy conservation and renewable energy projects. Once we begin paying the external costs of our energy use, the market will decide the best energy mix.
Hulsey has an M.S. degree in Natural Science from the University of Oklahoma and a B.A. degree in Political Economy from Middlebury College. He is a former Environmental Policy Adviser to President Clinton. Riehemann has a B.S. degree from Clarkson University in Mechanical Engineering and worked for 12 years in the natural gas industry. He earned an Executive MBA degree from the UW-Madison.
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PowerPoint:
The collision of capitalism, global warming and peak oil
Why we need a federal tax shift PowerPoint (1 MB )
-- Updated version of 3/15/2008 presentation; particularly last few slides --
