Nobel prize winner tells Clinton: Tax fossil fuels

CNN Money ^ | August 30, 2016 | Heather Long

[abclily]

OK!! Everybody pay attention!

Lesson for today:

1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.

2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.

3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.

4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.

5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.

Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?

[FatherofFive]

Tax the sun. The sun is the source of all energy on the Earth.

Winter is coming.

[Zeneta]

They should plug a couple of electrodes into Hillary to see how much energy she produces.

We could develop a new “Standard” or “Baseline” to measure what should be taxed.

They could even name this “Standard” after her.

[Maceman]

"I think a carbon tax would stimulate the economy," Stiglitz told CNNMoney. He says it would lead many firms to remodel their factories and redesign their supply chains, which would generate jobs and growth....

This idiot Nobel Prize winner never heard of the broken window fallacy?

[freedumb2003]

Ah yes, the nobel prize.

I have lint in my couch cushions more worthy and meaningful than that garbage broadcast of liberality.

[Red in Blue PA]

Ever notice how these Nobel prize winners never give this same advice to Chinese leaders?

[Third Person]

Stiglitz hates America.

[Billthedrill]

Tax...gasoline. Tax...gasoline. Tax...God, the man is a genius!

[DiogenesLamp]

Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has some advice for Hillary Clinton: Tax fossil fuels.

Government forcing "goodthink". Where have I heard this before?

[DiogenesLamp]

Because you don't have a Nobel Prize in Economics.

This crap doesn't just occur to anybody, you know. It takes training.

And again, Orwell Nailed it years ago:

There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them

[Arm_Bears]

Better idea—Tax Nobel Prize winners, instead.

$100 for each word they utter.

$10,000 for unsolicited opinions.

$100,000 annually for having to put up with them.

$1,000,000 levied annually against the university/think tank that employs them.

And take every red cent Obama has to his name.

[poconopundit]

Yeah, good idea. And how about tax on the books they sell!

[DiogenesLamp]

Also, to put this in perspective, those complete unadulterated *IDIOTS* in Sweden have given Nobel Prizes to Barack Obama and Al Gore.

It has gotten to the point where a Nobel prize in anything other than a hard science means in fact, that you are a special class of idiot.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

He sounds like a Marxist economist. If it exists, tax it. If it is a fossil fuel, tax it as many ways as you can and let the people freeze. Good for the coat business.

[RayChuang88]

If Hillary even suggests instituting a fossil fuel tax, she will lose big time in the election because such a tax will result in much higher prices for everything.

[353FMG]

Good news for the oil producing countries while the US is getting screwed.

[minnesota_bound]

The Clintons tried this back when Bill Clinton was first elected in the early 90’s.
Another scam the Clinton foundation would be involved with.

[stig]

Someone should tell the “Nobel Prize Winner” fossil fuels are already taxed at multiple levels.

Someone should take the Nobel Prize away for not knowing it's already taxed.

[Tallguy]

They already do. A good bit of what you pay at the pump is tax.

[Innovative]

“Stiglitz, who is an adviser to Clinton, “

This tells us all we need to know about him.