Lorrie Goldstein: Cap-and-trade generates sins of its own | JunkScience.com

Imagine being an NDP government stuck with a signature new tax that generates LESS money for your government over time. The horror! Fortunately, the “solution” is easy.

It’s to detach cap-and-trade from the requirement to lower emissions, turning it instead into a modern-day form of papal indulgence that doesn’t help the environment, but simply makes “polluters” (translation, people) pay perpetually for the “sin” of using energy.