Posted on 04/06/2015 4:08:13 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
If you’re at the Seattle Mariners season opener Monday you might run into some folks with clipboards, gathering signatures for a newly-announced initiative for 2016 that would tax carbon emissions.
The circulation of petitions to put Initiative 732 on the 2016 ballot signals a new strategy that may come into play if Gov. Jay Inslee and fellow Democrats in the Legislature are unable to pass their own carbon cap-and-trade proposal.
The Initiative would phase in a $25-per-ton tax on carbon dioxide emissions from certain fossil fuels and fossil fuel-generated electricity, starting in July, 2017. The proceeds would go into the general fund and be directed to offset reductions in the state sales tax and the business and occupation tax on manufacturing.
Gas prices would eventually go up by 25 cents per gallon but rebates of up to $1,500 per year would be provided to 400,000 families in Washington to make the tax "revenue neutral."
Carbon Washington needs to gather 325,000 signatures in order to get the carbon tax initiative in front of the Legislature. If the Legislature doesn’t pass it, it will go on the 2016 ballot.
(Excerpt) Read more at ijpr.org ...
Climate Activists can Carbon Tax Blue States into the Dirt if they like
Taxes have so many magical properties, from saving Obamacare’s constitutionality - to making the Earth cooler.
Those people need to be schooled...see post #4
What a great idea. We need their jobs in Virginia.
It’s working great for California, so why not?
When man does not believe in God, he does not believe nothing, he believes in anything. G. K. Chesterton
Fools.
Most blue states are already in the dirt. They're working now on taxing themselves six feet under.
Making the world look at their right hand (climate)
while they choke developed economies with their left.
I’m sure each person will save a minimum of $2500. Easy.
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Ping
“I’m sure each person will save a minimum of $2500. Easy.”
Or cost them an extra 6700....easy : )
Stupid leftists.
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