Climate Scientist: Liberals Will Use Carbon Tax to Make Government Bigger

Cybercast News Service ^ | March 13, 2014 - 1:16 PM | Melanie Hunter

[Olog-hai]

At a hearing Thursday on the Keystone oil pipeline, James Hansen, former director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, testified before Congress that 100 percent of the proceeds from a proposed carbon tax should go to the public, because liberals will try to use part of it to “make the government bigger.”

“An important point is that such legislation I think needs to be introduced by conservatives, because I’m afraid liberals will try to take part of the money to make the government bigger. Not one dime should go to the government. 100 percent should go to the public,” said Hansen told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. …

[Old Sarge]

[BRL]

Why is it that I understood at age 15 what these geniuses can barely understand at the end of their lives?

[El Cid]

LOL!
(I will have to steal that drawing)

[UCANSEE2]

” Not one dime should go to the government. 100 percent should go to the public,”

I agree. I’m the public and all of it should go to me.

Wait... where’s it coming from ?

[Graewoulf]

” - - - liberals will try to use part of it to “make the government bigger.”

Lemme see now - - - ?

Is this a quote from Captain Obvious?

Or maybe just a subtle reminder of what a bear does in the woods?

[BitWielder1]

There should be no carbon tax.
It's a redistribution scam, has nothing to do with climate.

[bkopto]

Wait a minute: I thought Hansen was a leftist - either he’s giving the game away or he has a brain tumor!

[MeshugeMikey]

Even John Kerry who fought In Vietnam agrees that this is settled science..

and we KNOW...that anything that that merde head endorses is most certainly SEDIMENT

[Amagi]

I suspect Jimmy Hansen is trying to rope-a-dope.
He's been in on the scam from at least 1988 when he gave a fraudulent testimony to congress.

[unixfox]

Why bother collecting a tax if you’re going to turn around and give it back to the taxed?

Why bother paying it in the first place?

They can KMA.

[TigersEye]

I want to get a home heating system that burns shredded tires.
I hate paying a fee to get rid of old tires.

[dalereed]

Eliminate the carbon tax, problem solved!

[Logical me]

America is completely under communists control by the King Obama empire. Once again, the communists Democratic party is and had destroyed much of America.

[TBP]

They do everything they do to make the government bigger.

[bunkerhill7]

Cold Records broken here today in Northern NY and Vermont.
Climate change alright- .

[353FMG]

>Liberals Will Use Carbon Tax to Make Government Bigger<

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Knowing full well that, even if the “conservatives” were to take over, their original policies will not be discontinued but faithfully implemented.

[marsh2]

Ahh but many brokers (and Al gore and friends) will make money hands over fist in the trading scheme regardless of where the price of the credit is diverted. Jerry Brown wants it to go into the state budget. Then it can go to feed climate change/smart growth/sustainable development/green interest groups and consultants.

[TurboZamboni]

Redistribution to the ‘most deserving’ (to be determined by Hairy Reed and Stretch Pelosi)

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Wow. Even James Hansen doesn't trust liberals with our money!

DOOMAGE!

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[Rocky]

Second time this week I’ve seen this sort of reverse psychology from liberals. The idea seems to be that they can somehow make liberal ideas sound appealing to conservatives. They just quote some conservative mantra, such as mall government, as justification for their liberal program, and they expect conservatives to jump on the bandwagon.