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John and Gavilan: With the "Carbon Tax" system is holds companies more accountable for what they are doing and hopefully acts as a deterrent for further fossil fuel use.

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We suport the carbon tax because it causes companies to reduce green house and admissions and reduces pollution and holds companies accountable.

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Cap and trade is superior for several reasons. It mandates businesses to comply to regulations, as their emissions cannot exceed a certain level. With the carbon tax, wealthy businesses can just pay the tax and continue emissions. Finally, profits from cap and trade go to continued investment in the environment.

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We would shoot for carbon taxing since it enforces more on the choice companies have to choose on whether to keep polluting at a high price or change their efficincy at a lower cost over time

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We support the carbon tax although it is slightly flawed. Despite the fact that it induces companies emitted green house gasses to reduce emissions, the companies usually increase prices for consumers in order to pay off the taxes. We suggest that a amendment be made to this tax policy in order to ensure that the companies are paying for these taxes without making the consumers pay more.

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One of the best parts of the cap and trade program is that you can reduce the number of permits to reduce emissions. However, I think this would only work if done gradually, and we are too far into the impacts of climate change to do things gradually. A carbon tax could be implemented now and as strictly as necessary. It can also be applied to specific emission sources that have more impact than others on climate change. I also think we would have to use fee-and-dividend, because otherwise consumers would be outraged at rising prices.

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The carbon tax is good bc it causes companies to reduce emissions like green house gasses. However, it isn't perfect since it raises prices.

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The cap and trade is the most effect because it has incentives and it reduces the amount of pollution produced into the atmosphere.

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We would endorse a carbon tax, but with extremely strict regulations to carbon offsets so that we can guarantee their success. This is because often times it is hard to guarantee carbon neutrality, and more money can be spent monitoring carbon offsets when they are vague.

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We feel that money drives the economy particularly when it comes to our environment. Taxing the emission will allow us as the government to decide how we want to use the money from the tax to help the environment, while incentivizing companies not to emit greenhouse gases. I WANT MONEY

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If we were U.S. senators, we would support a cap-and-trade system because we don't like the idea of companies passing the costs on to the consumers. This is contrary to our goal of reducing emissions. Cap-and-trade allows companies to reuce emissions, purchase permits to pollute, or buy carbon offsets to make up for their emissions. This system forces businesses to compete with each other and reduces the impacts that the consumer receives.
-Senators Nathaniel Graves and Oliver Porter

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Gavilan and John: When one examines the two systems of environmental regulations one will notice that they both provide realistic solutions to our carbon emission issues. With "Cap and Trade" providing a more transferable credit system where you can essentially trade out your debt and "Carbon Tax" taxing what you emit. Our group is in the opinion that Carbon Tax is the way to go because the money collected from this can be used for all aspects of society (although hopefully most will go to the environment)