Well here we go. Apparently our warnings that politicians were using the global warming issue as a pretext to impose a whole array of new taxes was spot on. Today's UK Sun reports the British Parliament is considering a whole passel of new bills to impose new taxes to "fight" global warming. "HARD—WORKING families face crippling new bills as the Government fights global warming with a raft of stinging taxes" Gee, and I thought these taxes were only going to levied on rich jet setters like Richard Branson, Al Gore, John Kerry and new Treasury secretary and ex Goldman hand Hank Paulsen. Evidently, this is not what the British legislators have in mind. According to the Sun, British Environment Secretary David Miliband has  drawn up massive green tax plans and dispatched them to Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown. In a letter to the Chancellor he wrote: 'As our understanding of climate change increases, it is clear more needs to be done.' According to unsourced...(Read Full Post)