Obama Says a New Tax Is 'The Most Elegant Way' to Stop Climate Change

cnsnews.com ^ | Dec. 1, 2015 | Susan Jones

[PROCON]

(CNSNews.com) - At news conference in Paris on Tuesday, President Obama said "the most elegant way" to reduce carbon emissions is "to put a price on it."

He was responding to a reporter who asked Obama, "I wonder if you see any political path back home toward putting a price on carbon?"

"I have long believed that the most elegant way to drive innovation and to reduce carbon emissions is to put a price on it. This is a classic market failure," Obama replied.

"If you open up an Econ 101 textbook, it will say the market's very good about determining prices and allocating capital towards its most productive use, except there's certain externalities, there's certain things that the market just doesn't count, it doesn't price, at least not on its own. Clean air is an example; clean water -- or the converse, dirty water, dirty air.

[GBA]

Obama Says a New Tax Is 'The Most Elegant Way' to Stop Climate Change

Wow, that's going to be hard to beat.

I'd always heard that Lottery tickets were a tax on the stupid, but obama is seriously raising that bar and setting a new standard!

The country will fall long before that record will, but hey, better that than the fishes swimming through the streets of Miami as the Alaskan tundra burns, right?

[HomerBohn]

Obama is an inelegant serious error committed by simple-minded American voters who want the world to see that even a foreign negro can be elected president to rule and ruin a nation.

[TexasRepublic]

If you like your gasoline, you can keep your gasoline, at $20 per gallon.

If you like your electricity, you can keep your electricity, at $1 per KWH.

etc.

[tumblindice]

AND he has cronies who need taxpayer-funded, global-warming federal boondoggles.

[Aquamarine]

With Obamacare it was too elegant to even call it a tax he called it a fee.

[ken in texas]

What does that THUG know about Elegance???

Hey, come on now. Have you ever seen his wife? </s

[BatGuano]

Put a price on it? How about the p_resident pony up for his use of Air Force 1? Not only for the fuel but for the so called “carbon footprint!”
A few years ago, I was flying from San Francisco and, just inside the security “obstacle,” there was a small kiosk with a “green” logo. The woman asked me if I would like to contribute to their cause because my flight would leave a carbon footprint. I said “no thanks.” I then asked her if I should feel guilty for past “footprints?” She asked, “what do you mean?” My reply was that I have logged almost 21,000 hours in a 37 year career flying military and commercial jets.
What would I owe? She rolled her eyes and then I got what I was looking for. “Never mind sir.”

[kearnyirish2]

He was just parroting something he heard white people saying (about another topic).

[clearcarbon]

"Obama Says a New Tax Is 'The Most Elegant Way' to Stop Climate Change"

A mochelle bake sale might have more appeal to the true believers.