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GOP senior statesmen making push for a carbon tax
Associated Press ^ | Feb 8, 2017 10:24 AM EST | Catherine Lucey and Julie Pace

Posted on 02/08/2017 7:59:54 AM PST by Olog-hai

A group of Republican senior statesmen is pushing for a carbon tax to combat the effects of climate change, and hoping to sell their plan to the White House.

Former Secretary of State Jim Baker is leading the effort, which also includes former Secretary of State George Shultz. In an opinion piece published Tuesday night in The Wall Street Journal, they argued “there is mounting evidence of problems with the atmosphere that are growing too compelling to ignore.” […]

Carbon taxes are designed to raise the cost of fossil fuels to bring down consumption. Baker and Shultz detailed in the opinion piece their plan for a gradually increasing carbon tax, with dividends being returned to people, as well as border adjustments for the carbon content of exports and imports and the rollback of regulations. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: baker; carbontax; climatechange; climatechangefraud; climatechangehoax; co2; co2measurableeffects; degrowthagenda; elitists; georgeshultz; globalism; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; gope; gopestablishment; hankpaulson; jimbaker; mckitrick; rinos; rossmckitrick; shultz; trumpclimatechange
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To: Olog-hai; 2ndDivisionVet; appalachian_dweller; aragorn; Arthur Wildfire! March; ASA Vet; ...

PING!!

Article and comments, esp, # 18 , #20, #23, # 28

#3
Globalists have not given up on their plan to cripple the US with carbon taxes.

Thanks, Olog-hai & H/T Tilted Irish Kilt


101 posted on 02/08/2017 9:59:10 AM PST by Whenifhow
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To: Olog-hai

What this carbon tax should be called is a VAT tax.


102 posted on 02/08/2017 10:07:03 AM PST by MAKOTHEDOG
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To: Olog-hai; All
Thank you for referencing that article Olog-hai. As usual, please bear in mind that that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

A group of Republican senior misguided RINO statesmen are pushing for a carbon tax to combat the effects of climate change, and hoping to sell their plan to the White House.

FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

While federal government oversight of the environment is arguably a good idea, patriots are reminded that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for environmental protection purposes.

In other words, the misguided, low-information “Republicans” in question are unthinkingly helping to unconstitutionally expand the already unconstitutionally big federal government’s powers.

Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!

Remember in November ’18 !

Since Trump entered the ’16 presidential race too late for patriots to make sure that there were state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the primary ballots, patriots need make sure that such candidates are on the ’18 primary ballots so that they can be elected to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.

Such a Congress will also be able to finish draining the swamp with respect to getting the remaining state sovereignty-ignoring, activist justices off of the bench.

Noting that the primaries start in Iowa and New Hampshire in February ‘18, patriots need to challenge candidates for federal office in the following way.

Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.

Patriots also need to find candidates that are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed above.

103 posted on 02/08/2017 10:11:45 AM PST by Amendment10
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To: Olog-hai

One of the assembled idiots described the proposal as a very republican thing to do. Raising taxes to perpetuate a scam, and redistributing money to “low income” citizens. Suddenly, we’ve set a pretty low bar to being a republican.


104 posted on 02/08/2017 10:36:49 AM PST by DPMD
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To: Ozark Tom

Coming to think about it, it seems the racketeering Cold War militaro Industrial complex Opinion making has now moved to social justice issues of carbon tax. This is nuts.


105 posted on 02/08/2017 10:41:21 AM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: suthener

wonder how much money they figure to make on this. They’re obviously jealous of Algore.


My thoughts exactly!


106 posted on 02/08/2017 11:04:26 AM PST by Freedom56v2 (JOHN 8:32 THEN YOU WILL KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE.)
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To: Olog-hai

A group of SENILE Rinos...

Stupid jerks are so far behind the known situations and facts. I guess they figure it’s going to get worse for their BS getting accepted now that very few people actually believe the MSM on anything.


107 posted on 02/08/2017 1:17:05 PM PST by Sal (Deplorables rule!)
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To: Iron Munro

You got it! /s


108 posted on 02/08/2017 2:38:11 PM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: Impy

sud pole?

a Chicago storm is hitting the northeast in the morning. Then, on SAT, back to autumn weather.

Winter has not started here.
what happened this week in the windy city of big shoulders on PEDs?


109 posted on 02/08/2017 6:31:14 PM PST by campaignPete R-CT (i WANNA HEAR MORE GLOATING!)
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To: campaignPete R-CT

Was warmish yesterday, currently GD cold. I heard snow is on the way. Previous snow melted, twice. Unusual for chi. Usually snow is on the ground from Dec till baseball time.

https://youtu.be/ZtoW4aV-CIc?t=34


110 posted on 02/08/2017 8:34:25 PM PST by Impy (Toni Preckwinkle for Ambassador to the Sun)
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To: Impy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d-4aOi3AzQ

right now, snowing with thunder.


111 posted on 02/09/2017 3:46:12 AM PST by campaignPete R-CT (i WANNA HEAR MORE GLOATING!)
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To: Olog-hai; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; All

We now have 2 times the proof that global warming is an internation FRAUD

University of East Anglia

NOAA last week

E N O U G H


112 posted on 02/09/2017 7:28:04 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: campaignPete R-CT

Run Zooey! I don’t like how that guy sounds!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc_F0zP9usU


113 posted on 02/09/2017 8:29:53 AM PST by Impy (Toni Preckwinkle for Ambassador to the Sun)
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114 posted on 02/09/2017 8:58:35 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Life was so much better before Hart-Cellar.)
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To: Olog-hai

They are out of their Effing minds!

How did “Read my lips: No new taxes!” work for Bush 41?


115 posted on 02/10/2017 8:25:25 AM PST by Taxman
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