Global Warming: Excuse for Taxes

Democrat wants to increase taxes around the board in order to reduce greenhouse gases. There would be a 50 cent tax increase per gallon of gas, a tax on carbon emissions as well as the elimination of the interest deduction on housing loans for houses over >3000 sq ft. Just how would you enforce that? Wouldn't some smart cookie figure out that if you split your house into a lot of smaller houses that there would be ways around this? Would I count stairs into that 3000 sq ft? What about the garage? Great, more legislation, more opportunities for loopholes.

What you don't understand is how the money is proposed to be spent. The tax gains will be applied to

...highway construction, mass transit, paying for Social Security and health programs and to help the poor pay energy bills.

Last I checked, Social Security, health programs (national insurance??), and welfare weren't contributing to global warming. So why the need to funnel the money there? Because global warming has just become a handy excuse to tax you and me to pay for somebody else's programs.