Posted on 06/19/2015 8:46:02 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
Whitehouse: "I extend an open hand, or an olive limb, to conservatives everywhere."
Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) have proposed a bill that would establish an economy-wide tax on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions.
“My bill sets the fee for a ton of carbon at $45 in 2016, the central range of the social cost of carbon as estimated by OMB, and would increase it each year at a real 2 percent. When emissions fall 80 percent below 2005 levels, the annual adjustment would fall to inflation,” Whitehouse said at the American Enterprise Institute when presenting the American Opportunity Carbon Fee Act.
Whitehouse, who makes regular speeches on the Senate floor warning about climate change, said the nonpartisan group Resources for the Future has concluded the carbon fee would reduce U.S. CO2 emissions 40 percent by 2025. He explained it is difficult to estimate the impact of the bill internationally. Despite this, Whitehouse told the audience the U.S. should take the lead by reducing emissions.
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What a deal maker!!!! He should be sent to State Dept.
Lucy with the football. Liberals trying to get c dr actives to betray their principles, again.
Rats doing what rats do best.
Carbon fee? Not no but hell no,. not now, not ever.
If this were a SUBSTITUTE for other taxes (revenue-nuetral), I could be persuaded. Taxes on work are more pernicious than excise taxes. As for the argument that there are relatively cheap alternatives to carbon-based energy, we’d find out. I suspect that consumption wouldn’t fall much.
Go pound sand! NO CARBON TAX! As my 2 year old grandson would say (hands on hips), “No! Never!”
What does the US Chamber of Commerce think?
That is the key for the GOP-e.
If there is enough money in the whores in the GOP-e will support it.
It is all over, not even Cruz can save the union.
There's a number totally pulled out of someone's arse. I think any action that resulted in a 40% reduction in the REDUCE-ABLE portion of CO2 emissions in the U.S. would be considered a wild success by these guys, but to claim it is a 40% reduction in ALL CO2 emissions -- well, that's just a lie.
Unless they start killing off people.
NO CARBON...NO PLANTS.......
Am I wrong?
This is the Onion, right?
I mean, why would Conservatives support a massive tax increase on the basis of the Global Warming Hoax?
You are 100% right! (of course my school didn’t operate under Common Core 50+ years ago.
With Whitehouse taxing breathing and Martin O’Malley taxing rain, what can go wrong? /s
Rats?
Wait for the RINOs to lead the way.
No matter what they say,
no matter what they promise,
they always betray their American (non fraud) voters
and the US Constitution.
AN ATTACK ON THE MIDDLE CLASS!
Democrats claim that they are for the little guy, the middle class. It is a big fat lie and someone should call them to task.
“” Whitehouse said at the American Enterprise Institute”
What the hell is the AEI think its doing, hosting this guy and his tyrannical, stupid idea?
It is insanity. The inmates are running the asylum.
Well, not yet. But soon.
Why would any conservative ever, in a trillion years, support this bill...
Anyone who supports this is a marxist, period
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