Environment - Climate Change and U.S. Policy

Read the article from the United Nations titled  

WHAT WE DO:

TACKLING THE GLOBAL CLIMATE CHALLENGE

           linked below:

http://www.unfoundation.org/what-we-do/issues/energy-and-climate/tackling-global-climate-challenge.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/

and watch the video titled:

The Facts of Cap and Trade

linked below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwN1OwdUkgg

and then read the short article with helpful interactive titled:

Obama Just Created a Carbon Cap-and-Trade Program

 linked below:

http://www.climatecentral.org/news/obama-just-created-a-carbon-cap-and-trade-program-19309

Post a NOW response:

New - one thing you learned that was new - it has to be different from the two answers above you.
Opinion - state your opinion about one aspect of these 3 sources.
Want to know - what is one thing about this subject you wonder / want to know more about.

Who do you Tax? What do you cut?

Watch both of the video segments below, which will extend your understanding of taxation and its effect on the economy.  Then carry out the budget simulation titled "Stabilize the Debt".  THERE IS NO OTHER RESEARCH YOU NEED TO DO.  After completing all three exercises, write a 1 - 3 paragraph position statement on your fiscal beliefs.  Who do you tax?  What do you cut?  Be sure to explain your rationale.  Please take some time to review your classmates' answers as well.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXDYPGQiG_I&feature=em-subs_digest

Balanced Budget Amendment explained


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbxXns0zero

How the Government Uses Fiscal Policy to Influence the Economy

http://crfb.org/stabilizethedebt/#

Stabilize the Debt - Budget Simulation

Income "Gap" and Taxation

Important as a campaign issue, underlying the division between the haves and the have nots, and also clearly economic, lets look at the income gap and taxation this next week.

Posted is a video that provides the history of the minimum wage

An Animated History Of The Minimum Wage

http://business.time.com/2014/02/28/an-animated-history-of-the-minimum-wage/

Watch this to provide some historical perspective.  Then read the included article that claims to reveal 

5 Tax Myths You'll Hear During Republican Presidential Debate

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-clemente/five-tax-myths-youll-hear_b_7944370.html

In your post I want you to take one of the myths and support its accuracy (as in why it is true and is not a myth).  Find a source that will provide you with some help and be sure and post the url.