Posted on 09/08/2014 8:03:41 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Abraham Maslow once suggested that if your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. If a carbon tax isn't the only tool on Thomas Friedman's belt, it's perhaps the most prominent one. So sure enough, when Friedman, as per his New York Times column of yesterday, looks at the dual threat to the United States posed by ISIS and Putin, his solution is, you guessed it, a carbon tax, coupled with freeing up US oil exports.
Joe Scarborough struggled to stay respectful, but wound up citing Zbigniew Brzezinski's response in a similar situation: "I remember a couple of years ago we had a Pulitzer Prize winner on here saying it's so horrible that the Bush administration is doing this and that because the Pakistanis, they just want to be like us. And Dr. Brzezinski started laughing that sort of Dr. No laugh and he said "you are a fool. They do not want to be like us. They want to be the opposite of us." Scarborough went on to observe that the only thing that will solve ISIS is killing them and blowing up their equipment.
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If you have to sell oil on the black market you are paying a tax. Because you have to sell it at a significant discount compared to market rate or else buyers would just buy the oil from legal sellers. That's why sanctions against Iran worked. Did Iran still sell oil? Yes. But they had to discount the oil to find buyers willing to put up with the headache of dealing with contraband.
The only carbon that’s good for them is that part of gunpowder that propels a bullet.
If weather and seasons can be stopped with a carbon tax, ISIS will be a cake walk. Of course, although Biden and his idiot boss think that paying taxes is patriotic, paying taxes to stop muslim animals like ISIS would amount to treason in their eyes.
Liberals like Friedman see the world in terms of a alternate universe they devise from the gossamer webs of their own words, totally unrelated to the real world.
The only reality about ISIS is that it is a political cult that is fighting a religious war against anyone who doesn’t believe in the jihad of Islam as the absolute word of God that must be followed to the letter.
If you don’t believe in their brand of Islam, it is Allah’s will and decree that you are enslaved, converted to Islam or killed.
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