Posted on 08/02/2016 4:55:00 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
On paper, it looks like a big win for environmentalists: a ballot initiative in Washington state to make it the first in the nation to impose a tax on all carbon emissions.
Yet green groups are united almost in lockstep against the proposal – all because it includes tax cuts, to offset the tax hike.
Yoram Bauman, who authored Initiative 732 and generally sides with environmental groups that have claimed for years that greenhouse gasses are responsible for climate change, now says he’s shocked at the pushback he’s facing from these same organizations.
“Putting a price on carbon is the single most important thing we can do to tackle climate change,” Bauman told Fox News.
The turn of events has highlighted a curious aspect of the environmentalist coalition in the region: as much as these groups want to fight carbon emissions, they also want to make sure the money from any carbon tax is used primarily to boost the government’s clean-energy programs.
The Sierra Club, on its website, sums up its opposition this way: “Revenues from its [I-732’s] carbon tax would not be invested in ramping up jobs in clean fuels infrastructure or energy efficiency.”
Their sticking point is that Bauman’s plan, to the contrary, is designed to be revenue-neutral.
The tax would start out at $25 per ton and rise each year until hitting a cap of $100 a ton. Initially, it is projected to add 25 cents to the cost of every gallon of gasoline, increase air fares and raise utility bills -- costing $2 billion a year. But this would be offset by cutting the state’s sales tax by 1 percent, lowering taxes for 400,000 working-class families and eliminating a tax on businesses that manufacture in Washington.
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Does that include being alive? We exhale carbon dioxide with every breath. How will they tax that? What pure unadulterated crap this “climate change” hoax is.
As we all know, globull warming is nothing more than a head fake to increase the power of the state.
Will they reward me for the trees growing in my yard that eat carbon?
And a massive transfer of wealth to turd world dictators.
It isn’t the environment they care so much about, that’s just a tool for what they really want...POWER. They want to grow the government, and they want to be the government.
What is “climate change”? What do we measure with empirical data? They don’t have a clue— not one measurable criteria. There is absolutely no global warming. Don’t let them take your stuff and drive you in a cave on total bull shit.
Watermelons. Green out the outside, RED on the inside.
What is REALLY SAD is that a STRONG MAJORITY of conservatives, if not a majority of FReepers STILL BELIEVE that environmentalists only want clean air and clean water, and will DISCOUNT this article as ‘Tea Party Propaganda’.
Very sad for us, for we WILL BE DEFEATED if we are unable to step up and call a spade a spade. This is our BIGGEST WEAKNESS...thinking these people are misguided, rather than PURE EVIL. And yes, at the ground floor, the masses, they are more likely ‘misguided’, but the PEOPLE RUNNING THE SHOW, the ones pulling their puppet strings, the ones writing the ‘articles’, know EXACTLY what they are doing.
But they feed on OUR WEAKNESS to, again, call a spade a spade and CALL THEM OUT for what they have in store for this country.
...as it is, if Trump loses, we become like Argentina (at best), or Venezuela (more likely), and it will be because WE REFUSED to support him (maybe because of his ‘tone’), even knowing that he was TOTALLY RIGHT.
Get out there. And donate whatever you can.
As we all know, it was never about the environment, it was always about the m-o-n-e-y.
More proof that the phony “war on climate change” is just another leftist scam to extort money, redistribute it, and expand government power.
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?
Trees also expel carbon dioxide at night, it’s called the night cycle. These brain dead fascists will destroy the world in order to save it. Christ help us.
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