This is in effect an end to the tortuous past

It looks well, lately, that more person knows which way to tax. Rarely project has attracted as much controversy as the carbon tax. Everyone is in his comment, praise or criticism. Appropriateness, effectiveness, amount, extension, nature of the device, everything going. And it will continue, so the issues are significant and multiple - environmental, industrial, political, fiscal, national and international, European and global. Not to mention that a few misunderstandings, confusions and tangle have an unfortunate tendency to clouding the debate. Starting with those around the word "tax".

This is in effect an end to the tortuous past. It has changed several times of meanings. Thus, historically, the word was first used to appoint the official fixing of a price: they paid a good "after tax", or above, or below. The people, when life became too expensive, claimed "the tax", the control of prices. From there, he arrived that "fee" means simply "scale" or "rate". Article "fee" of his "philosophical dictionary", Voltaire makes a mockery codifications figures of the Catholic Church's forgiveness. He cites a sort of catalogue, edited by Pope Leo X in 1514, where one learns that he must pay to be absolved if you have known her mother, défloré a Virgin, killed his father or other trivialities.

In the 19th century, "fee" has become synonymous with tax. This meaning is is kept today in English "tax", as in the French financial vocabulary that employs him to talk about all mandatory levies. But, do not arrange, use was also established in France a distinction between tax and tax. It is paid by a user during a particular transaction and, most importantly, it gives rise to a consideration: stay taxes, of road, removal of the garbage household or dredging of canals and rivers are used to pay for services. But this is not always the case: the tax is a tax, let alone value added... Difficult to make more messy!

One of the net, however, in the case of the carbon tax, is intended: it to more expensive energy consumption to reduce it. Simple principle: in taxing considered negative behaviour, reduce their frequency and it finance positive mutations. This is a device which appears to be promised a bright future. Make more expensive everything that is harmful, are fueling the virtuous developments with the collected money. How do not dream of its extension

Create a tax on fanaticism, it will be used to multiply the centres of tolerance! Take a high percentage of carriers hate books! Taxa generating works of contempt, the bellicose rhetoric, threatening remarks! Transferring the funds collected to integration projects and institutions for peace! Then the slander, the media mob violence, defamation campaigns, becoming unaffordable, eventually eroded. The rail would be under control...

It is the lie that should be taxed. What is false would become more expensive, and the colossal amounts that would soon bring this "tax lie" would be returned without delay to the centres of scientific research institutes of philosophy, friends of the truth. In a short time, this set of new taxes, the world would go to more and more of love, of peace, knowledge... Up to the point where it commits that it works poorly. The effects are not those expected. Good intentions would result in bad consequences.

Then, should take further action. It would therefore begin by taxing the utopia, and fund the realism. Would pay the dreamers, visionaries, the prophets. The money would serve to heighten the irony, that would be duty-free.