Posted on 03/26/2015 6:10:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Excerpted from Campus Reform: Speaking to students at the University at Albany, Bill Nye the Science Guy said that a carbon tax was needed for the purpose of redistributing wealth.
“We need, dare I say it, a tax, or should I say a fee,” Nye purportedly said Wednesday, right before an anonymous student began recording.
“It’s not just to be mean, it’s to redistribute wealth,” Nye said.
Nye went on to claim that instituting such a tax would drive innovation in more environmentally friendly ways.
“It will stimulate people investing in more energy efficient means. If you gotta pay a fee every time you make carbon monoxie and somone comes up with a more efficient car, you’ll use that car. Somebody comes up with a more efficient blender, you’ll use that blender. I mean, that’s just how it’s going to go.”
The free campus event distributed 1,000 copies of Nye’s new book Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation to students in attendance. The lecture, part of an annual student-run speaker series, quickly became a pro-big government, higher taxes rally.
“The trouble with this is, there are people now, in the U.S. government, who don’t like government,” Nye lectured.
The former television host and Disney actor then ranted about limited government conservatives, comparing them to a General Motors employee that wants to shut their own company down.
“We have to get people who really want the government to do what it’s supposed to do, which is run things,” Nye said.
“what it’s supposed to do, which is run things”
There are plenty of tyrannies in the world. Why doesn’t he go to one of those?
Where’s the PUKE Earning????
He is a left wing kook. We need to laugh every time his name comes up.
“never go full retard”
because none of them are interested in playing along with his pet ideas... he’s got to roll that on his own
Bill Nye the Commie Guy
>>“We have to get people who really want the government to do what it’s supposed to do, which is run things,” Nye said.
Oh. My. God.
Whatever happened to the liberal mantras of “Keep your government out of my womb” and “Keep your government out of my bedroom”? Now, he wants it to run things?
Because everyone knows that if someone gets something for free they work harder for it.
What a jackass!
and he thinks he can make it stop whenever he wants to?
what a maroon.
Hey Nye — move to Cuba. Go away.
Well, at least he’s telling the truth about what the carbon tax really is - redistribution - not preventing Globull Warming.
Aside from that, we have a fundamental disagreement about what government should be doing or more accurately trying to do. It’s trying to run everything already, and not doing a particularly good job either.
And of course a bit more would be redistributed to the truly important, enlightened people who would wisely make decisions for everyone else. Important, enlightened people like Bill Nye.
>>and he thinks he can make it stop whenever he wants to?
And therein lies the problem. Progs think they can give the government all power and then harness it. For people with all their degrees, they sure are stupid.
Slow Joe seems like a genius when compared to this loser.
Bill Nye the Totalitarian Guy.
He might want to delve into sociology... yes there is such a science.
This is like a fellow who wants to play with an atom bomb in his back yard.
Billy boy send me a check after you liquidate your assets and I will personally redistribute that wealth.
What a guy that Billy Nye!
How fitting the man with a BS, in Mechanical Engineering< is only capable of spouting BS! You go right ahead start redistributing your wealth first. Amazing that his bio lists him as a Scientist, I didn’t know that a BS in mechanical Engineering qualified as Scientist.
This guy is a dilettante, not a scientist.
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