Reply #13: IN HIS OWN WORDS:

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"For the last fourteen years, I have advocated the elimination of all payroll taxes — including those for social security and unemployment compensation — and the replacement of that revenue in the form of pollution taxes — principally on CO2. The overall level of taxation would remain exactly the same. It would be, in other words, a revenue neutral tax swap. But, instead of discouraging businesses from hiring more employees, it would discourage business from producing more pollution."

Al Gore, NYU Law, 9/18/06

Much, much more, here:
http://thinkprogress.org/gore-nyu

RE-ELECT GORE IN 2008!