[Clive]

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[expat_panama]

"carbon tariffs" to punish trading partners

This is the same old same ol'.  Big government tax hikes for us that are supposed to be for getting even with our Canadian and Mexican enemies.

[Will88]

The United States has threatened "carbon tariffs" to punish trading partners who refuse to punish themselves by slashing emissions.

All nothing but leftist lunacy, deciding whether to shoot yourself in the head once or twice.

Cap and trade is one of the most asinine and self-destructive policies ever proposed in the US. But if that policy did make sense, it would also make sense to put carbon tariffs on nations that do not have similar policies. And if that made sense, the biggest tariffs of all should be put on US manufacturers producing in China and other cheap labor nations.

Just questions of how stupid and self-destructive a nation wants to be. The only sensible thing to try for now is to defeat the basic cap and trade legislation.