yahoo news (dec 10, 2007)

SYDNEY (AFP) - Parents who have more than two children should be charged a lifelong climate change tax to offset the effect of their extra greenhouse gas emissions, an Australian medical expert has proposed.

They should pay 5,000 dollars (4,400 US) a head for each extra child and up to 800 dollars every year thereafter, according to the plan published in the Medical Journal of Australia.

In contrast, contraceptives and sterilisation procedures would be eligible for carbon credits, suggested Professor Barry Walters at the King Edward Memorial Hospital in Perth.

"Every family choosing to have more than a defined number of children should be charged a carbon tax that would fund the planting of enough trees to offset the carbon cost generated by a new human being," he wrote

Walters, an obstetrician, made his proposal in a letter in which he criticised the government's payment of a 4,000 dollar "baby bonus" in a bid to boost the birth rate in this sparsely-populated country of 21 million people.

Paying parents extra for every baby fuelled more emissions and contributed to global warming, he said, adding that the bonus should be replaced with a "baby levy" in line with the "polluter pays" principle.

And Professor Garry Egger, director of the New South Wales Centre for Health Promotion and Research, agreed.

"Population remains crucial to all environmental considerations," he wrote. "The debate (around population control) needs to be reopened as part of a second ecological revolution."

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Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

lahat na lang ba pwede lagyan ng tax? tsk tsk tsk... baka sa susunod pati hangin na nacoconsume natin ay i-tax...

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ok lang yan sa australia naman yan eh. baka siguro patuloy sa paglobo ng populasyon kaya sila nagpasa ng batas.
dito kung gagawin yan lalo ka lang maaasar sa gobyerno. kasi lalong lalaki kurakot nila.

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Don't STEAL. The GOVERNMENT hates competition. Good in english huh!? It doesn't mean your smart enough.
my other account: crad3r (i use this only if my account is bugged)

Di pwede yan. Kasi di naman masusunod yan ng lahat ng tao... Dagdag pahirap lang yan sa taong bayan..

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Pirates Assult / GodQuest

kanino nila ibibigay yung tax? kay mother nature? natanggap ba ng pera yun?

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...ganyan lang talaga ko magbiro...may kasamang hipo...

nyahaha. pano kaya kung sa pilipinas gawin yan? wala na nang makain yung ibang mga kababayan natin, magtatax pa. ang masama, saan ba napupunta ang tax? edi sa...

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Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we're wired that way. Because without it, I don't know; maybe we just wouldn't feel real. What's that saying? Why do I keep hitting myself with a hammer? Because it feels so good when I stop.

I'm not agreeing with this... Parang pangit ang kalalabasan nito...

Ano ang mga anak sa Australia? kotse? baka? kalabaw?

Duh.... ang labo naman ng batas na yan.

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Exchange Gifts

over populated na eh.

di imposibleng mapatupad yan... kaya lang unfair din sa mga mahihirap/naghihirap na pipol dun... pwede siguro para dun sa mga nakakaangat ang pamumuhay... pero dito sa atin malabo... sa hirap ng buhay lalo lang nilang pahihirapan ang mga mamamayan... tapos mananakaw lang naman ng mga kung sinong herodes na pulitiko...

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siggy by kawaiitenshi

is dat 4 real..!!!..mahirap na nga bansa ntin anu pa yan

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Ewan ko lang pero sa palagay mahirap iimpliment yan dito sa atin kasi karamihan ng maraming anak dito ay yung mga mahihirap...

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Gupheios [60:52] Arcadia Crystal ,Rejios [61:51] Aninglandia Marble

tama lang siguro yun pero yung penalty ang masyado mataas.. kasi dito sa 'pinas, kung sino pa yung below poverty line, sila pa yung madaming anak at sila pa ang may mga ganang magalit sa gobyerno..

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[71:46] > Archangelos

all i can say is this is retarded

that's stupid... no one would agree to that...