Posted on 09/18/2013 1:01:06 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
After being rebuffed on the carbon tax, California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer said she will try to pass it again through tax reform.
Boxer’s carbon tax bill from earlier this year does not have the 60 votes necessary to pass the Senate unimpeded, reports the Hill newspaper. She claims a carbon tax would enable other tax rates to be lowered.
“We are looking at tax reform to see whether there is a possibility to utilize a fee on carbon that could be returned to the people in dividend form, such as the Bernie Sanders bill and there are others like it. So, we are really mostly working toward the tax reform issue,” Boxer said.
Republicans have vehemently opposed the idea of a carbon tax “swap” where certain tax rates — like corporate or income tax rates — are lowered in exchange for implementing a gradually rising tax on carbon emissions.
“Other countries are running from similar policies, the most recent example being Australia’s rejection of a carbon tax in their last election,” said Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter. “That’s because a carbon tax is clearly a failed idea that could significantly ruin any chance for the United States to have a full economic recovery.”
A spokesman for Michigan Republican Rep. Dave Camp, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, told The Daily Caller News Foundation that the chairman opposes a carbon tax “either as a standalone or as part of a larger package.”
At the beginning of his second term, President Obama called on Congress to pass market-based solutions to lower U.S. carbon dioxide emissions or he would use his executive authority to tackle the issue himself.
Soon after, Boxer and Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced carbon tax legislation to slap a gradually rising tax on carbon emissions that would start at $20 per ton in 2014, rising to $35 per ton over twelve years.
California Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman introduced draft legislation that would impose a carbon tax as high as $30 per ton in 2014 which would rise to nearly $70 per ton in 2025.
But House Republicans have voted affirmatively against a carbon tax, and Boxer acknowledged that there aren’t enough votes in the Senate to pass her bill.
“We don’t have the votes for a carbon tax or a carbon fee, so I wouldn’t suggest to [Senate Majority Leader] Harry Reid that he bring it up because we don’t have the votes for it,” Boxer told reporters on Tuesday.
Recently, Australia’s Labor Party was thrown out of power for imposing a carbon tax last year. However, Boxer and other carbon tax supporters have not been deterred by Australia’s election results.
Boxer’s office did not respond to a request for comment.
Haven’t you heard, Baba? The earth is COOLING, not warming.
bump
* is an absolute moron. An idiot*
Proof that it’s possible to have an IQ in the negative points range.
In fact, the Founding States made the 10th Amendment to clarify that the Constitution's silence about issues like carbon and the environment automatically make them uniquely state power issues.
So Sen. Boxer has the option to rally Congress to propose an appropriate amendment to the states for ratification as required by the Constitution's Article V, which Congress was also required with Obamacare. And if the states CHOSE to ratify her proposed amendment, it would grant Congress the constitutional authority to do what Boxer wants to do and Boxer would be a hero.
Alternatively, Boxer can go back to California as a state legislator and at least force her junk science carbon legislation on California under the 10th Amendment.
Exactly. Wonder how many Americans are thinking the same and their patience is wearing thin. How much more can people take?
I am waiting for the Unions to get preferential treatment wrt Obamacare. Not the final straw for me but I will become a lot more active. A lot more involved in politics and protests. It would be extremely unfair for the bureaucrats to start handing out waivers to their cronies while the rest of us law abiding tax paying fools suffer through it. This is just one issue for me, too.
The ice could be 1,000 ft. thick in New York City and the clingers on the left would still be pushing the same AGW propaganda.
If she were serious about carbon emissions, she’d quit breathing......
You are correct. I see no way out, at the moment.
Am tired of living in a socialist state. My dad fought in WWII so this kind of nonsense would not happen.
If that crap is not good enough for congress, the unions, gov. officials, it is surely not good enough for the taxpayers supporting their idiocy.
Blessings to you.
Babs, the sun is 93 million miles away. Minus 200 degrees is only 75 miles away. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that equation.
She’s a beacon of idiocy.
She’s not bright enough for that.
Blessings to you, too.
Hey, we might run into each other in the future. Like minds and all. I hope that it is under positive circumstances.
Call her witless senator. I think she earned the title.
For this, I’ll never forgive Bruce for making that stop at the “bookstore”.....
"Why shouldn't we tax carbon? Who cares if it is a scam? We can use the tax revenue for good, government approved programs!"
And most of “us,” or at least 50% of us, are too stupid to realize what that means.
Have you seen Boxer recently? She has had more surgeries to regress aging than sand particles on her Cailfornication beaches.
It’s time to inform the majority liberal scum voters in CA that the Nazis and communists they send to the Senate, ie, Boxer and Swinestein, will not be recognized as senators. In other words, clean up your shithole state before we let loose the 1stMarDiv from Camp Pendleton.
Assholes.
she can get all the surgeries she wishes...one thing she can’t change...and that is her date of birth..NOV. 18, 1940...so the big 73 is coming up...faster than she wishes I would suspect.
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