# Cap and Trade

**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cap-and-trade/203084
**Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [July 1, 2009, 4:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cap-and-trade/203084 "2009-07-01T04:37:37Z")
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### Author: ![Darkstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@Darkstar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Darkstar)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2009, 8:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cap-and-trade/203084/36 "2009-07-02T08:53:10Z")

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> [@Mortal Kombat Killing](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mortal-kombat-killing/40560/7):
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> taxing does not work. It never has and it never will. All taxing does is give more money to the people creating the taxes in the first place.
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> cutting gov size and spending would be a much better idea than taxing people.

Oh I agree with you wholeheartedly on that point. We definitely need to cut the size of government. Vastly. However, taxing companies that send a shitload of pollution into the air that is killing us and making us sick isn’t really making government bigger. Sick people increase the cost of healthcare. We’ve done the same thing with cigarettes… I didn’t see any of you non-smokers too fucking up in arms over that new tax…

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