Posted on 06/20/2018 1:17:22 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
As former leaders of our parties in the United States Senate, we know what it takes to achieve a bipartisan breakthrough in Congress. For all the talk of discord in Washington, we see the possibility of finding common ground on a divisive issue. As surprising as it may sound, climate change offers an opportunity for both parties to come together and deliver a victory - and cash dividends - to the American people.
Congress should approve legislation to place a meaningful fee on carbon-dioxide emissions that ripples through all sectors of our economy, and return the revenues it generates to the American people in the form of cash dividends. We must set it high enough to encourage a turn to cleaner energy sources and accelerate our transition to a low-carbon future.
The plan is simple and elegant. It calls for an initial fee of $40 on every ton of carbon-dioxide emissions at the source, and raising it each year until we reach the necessary emissions reductions as businesses and consumers move to cleaner sources of energy. All revenue would then be disbursed to Americans as cash dividends. A family of four would receive approximately $2,000 a year. We would then export this approach and leadership on this issue to every corner of the global economy, while protecting the competitiveness of American firms.
This is the only realistic, workable path now open to us if we want to actually solve one of the most daunting challenges of our time. We must put a meaningful price on carbon in America, and then convince the rest of the world to follow our lead.
To do so, we must set our politics aside for the greater good. America has done it before, time after time. We believe the country will do so again.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
As a rule of thumb Fedzilla takes a 50% cut of any money that passes through its hands. The dividend won't come close to covering the higher fuel and electricity prices people will have to pay. And unlike free market investors Fedzilla converts 100% of its revenues into carbon emissions. CO2 will actually increase.
I say, make it $400 a month for news print and ink!
Trent Lott. To think that sausage chewing wino was once a respected Republican of sorts.
Russia is running out of CO2 to make Beer for The World Cup , FIFA anyone ,LOL
Europe has FAILED to meet the simpleset goal of reducing Carbon emissions...yet the United States has lower its rate without government mandates or taxes.
Take that fact and smoke it, Socialists!
Does the hand in the jacket indicate a member of the Masons
Barf a mundo.
Trent Lott?? The idiot with the feather in his hat?? What a laugh! He wasn’t called “vacant lott” for nothing.
He is either a Mason or he is going for his gun.
Karl Marx.
I'm going to assume that's a joke. Goebbels would never admit to Jewish ancestors, and Karl Marx's father was a rabbi.
No, I really didn't know who that was a picture of.
Don’t worry about where it comes from. It’s free money!
Well, maybe not. Your power bill, gasoline, and every product that uses fossil fuels to produce or transport will also go up.
Lott is a lobbyist....ie. whore.
There is no impasse. There is no science.
There is no problem.
Trent Lott, referred to as a Leader? That's the silliest thing I've read online in months.
Lott’s body apparently is still alive, but his brain has died.
Trent Lott a NWO socialist scumbag whoreb not to denigrate whores.
Trent, if you want to cut back on CO2 emission, just stop breathing!
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