Posted on 02/08/2017 7:59:54 AM PST by Olog-hai
A group of Republican senior statesmen is pushing for a carbon tax to combat the effects of climate change, and hoping to sell their plan to the White House.
Former Secretary of State Jim Baker is leading the effort, which also includes former Secretary of State George Shultz. In an opinion piece published Tuesday night in The Wall Street Journal, they argued “there is mounting evidence of problems with the atmosphere that are growing too compelling to ignore.” […]
Carbon taxes are designed to raise the cost of fossil fuels to bring down consumption. Baker and Shultz detailed in the opinion piece their plan for a gradually increasing carbon tax, with dividends being returned to people, as well as border adjustments for the carbon content of exports and imports and the rollback of regulations. …
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Article and comments, esp, # 18 , #20, #23, # 28
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Globalists have not given up on their plan to cripple the US with carbon taxes.
Thanks, Olog-hai & H/T Tilted Irish Kilt
What this carbon tax should be called is a VAT tax.
A group of Republican senior misguided RINO statesmen are pushing for a carbon tax to combat the effects of climate change, and hoping to sell their plan to the White House.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
While federal government oversight of the environment is arguably a good idea, patriots are reminded that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for environmental protection purposes.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
In other words, the misguided, low-information “Republicans” in question are unthinkingly helping to unconstitutionally expand the already unconstitutionally big federal government’s powers.
Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!
Remember in November ’18 !
Since Trump entered the ’16 presidential race too late for patriots to make sure that there were state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the primary ballots, patriots need make sure that such candidates are on the ’18 primary ballots so that they can be elected to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.
Such a Congress will also be able to finish draining the swamp with respect to getting the remaining state sovereignty-ignoring, activist justices off of the bench.
Noting that the primaries start in Iowa and New Hampshire in February ‘18, patriots need to challenge candidates for federal office in the following way.
Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.
Patriots also need to find candidates that are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed above.
One of the assembled idiots described the proposal as a very republican thing to do. Raising taxes to perpetuate a scam, and redistributing money to “low income” citizens. Suddenly, we’ve set a pretty low bar to being a republican.
Coming to think about it, it seems the racketeering Cold War militaro Industrial complex Opinion making has now moved to social justice issues of carbon tax. This is nuts.
wonder how much money they figure to make on this. They’re obviously jealous of Algore.
A group of SENILE Rinos...
Stupid jerks are so far behind the known situations and facts. I guess they figure it’s going to get worse for their BS getting accepted now that very few people actually believe the MSM on anything.
You got it! /s
sud pole?
a Chicago storm is hitting the northeast in the morning. Then, on SAT, back to autumn weather.
Winter has not started here.
what happened this week in the windy city of big shoulders on PEDs?
Was warmish yesterday, currently GD cold. I heard snow is on the way. Previous snow melted, twice. Unusual for chi. Usually snow is on the ground from Dec till baseball time.
https://youtu.be/ZtoW4aV-CIc?t=34
We now have 2 times the proof that global warming is an internation FRAUD
University of East Anglia
NOAA last week
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They are out of their Effing minds!
How did “Read my lips: No new taxes!” work for Bush 41?
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