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GOP senior statesmen making push for a carbon tax
Associated Press ^ | Feb 8, 2017 10:24 AM EST | Catherine Lucey and Julie Pace

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: baker; carbontax; climatechange; climatechangefraud; climatechangehoax; co2; co2measurableeffects; degrowthagenda; elitists; georgeshultz; globalism; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; gope; gopestablishment; hankpaulson; jimbaker; mckitrick; rinos; rossmckitrick; shultz; trumpclimatechange
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These über-RINOs ought not be given the time of day.
1 posted on 02/08/2017 7:59:54 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

What happened to free markets ?


2 posted on 02/08/2017 8:01:37 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Olog-hai

Globalists have not given up on their plan to cripple the US with carbon taxes.


3 posted on 02/08/2017 8:02:09 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Olog-hai

These idiots have a death wish and should be tarred and feathered in the highest carbon way possible.


4 posted on 02/08/2017 8:02:22 AM PST by Truth29
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To: Olog-hai

RINOs want to saddle the economy with more taxes and regulations.


5 posted on 02/08/2017 8:02:36 AM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: Olog-hai

Statesman is generally defined as “A dead politician.”

These guys are not dead yet so they are politicians.


6 posted on 02/08/2017 8:03:02 AM PST by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: Olog-hai

Two more fossils from the Bush era trying to gain attention. They probably invested in Carbon Credits, as did Al Gore. If climate change is debunked, they’d lose their bet.


7 posted on 02/08/2017 8:03:02 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: Lurkinanloomin

The madness persists. President Trump must make short shrift of this sickness.


8 posted on 02/08/2017 8:03:05 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (The Left has the temperament of a squealing pig.)
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To: Olog-hai

To hell with these RINO left-overs from the failed George H. W. Bush Administration.

Tone deaf morons, thy name is GOPe.


9 posted on 02/08/2017 8:03:18 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Our 8 Year Nightmare Has Ended!)
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To: Olog-hai

Not senior statesmen. Senior-moment dinosaurs who have no relevance.


10 posted on 02/08/2017 8:03:43 AM PST by Gaffer
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Carbon tax credits are a cause célèbre for globalists. It’s the future currency for a globalists economy.


11 posted on 02/08/2017 8:03:46 AM PST by Fhios
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Bastards. They are working for someone who will benefit from this. They have always been in the Saudi and globalist pocket. God I hate the Republican establishmen for exactly things like this.


12 posted on 02/08/2017 8:03:50 AM PST by DesertRhino (.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

What, free markets and the Uniparty? Just incompatible, or so they remind us.


13 posted on 02/08/2017 8:04:07 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

AP writing what they hope for. This will be ridiculed by the current admin.

Propaganda pure and simple.

And they still don’t understand that few believe them. And libtards still believe the media drives opinions and narratives.

Maybe, just maybe they’ll begin to see the light after 2018 midterms gives 60+ senators...

...belly laugh...


14 posted on 02/08/2017 8:04:19 AM PST by Principled (OMG I'm so tired of all this winning....)
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To: Olog-hai

I wonder how much money they figure to make on this. They’re obviously jealous of Algore.


15 posted on 02/08/2017 8:04:55 AM PST by suthener
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So, I have an idea, there is a carbon tax and it is called TARIFFS!

These same people accuse Trump of working for Putin but then come back favoring Russia and China in profound tax language

I am sick of these communist moles


16 posted on 02/08/2017 8:05:18 AM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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Baker's is 86 and Schultz is 96...what possible skin can they have in this ?
This is like Obama making law 5 minutes before he left office, to hamper Trump.
17 posted on 02/08/2017 8:05:29 AM PST by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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To avoid an undue burden on the poor from the higher energy bills that would result, the projected $200 billion to $300 billion in annual revenue would be redistributed to households in the form of quarterly checks from the Social Security Administration. Families of four would see an average annual payout of $2,000 under the plan.

Duh Phuk dey would.

You will never see an increase of any money.

The plan is for social security recipients? A family of 4 will see an additional $2,000 per year?

There are generally not families of 4 using social security.

By the time someone uses social security they are down to one or two people in the house and they both receive social security checks.

This is a crazy azz plan to eventually give the U.N. taxing power, which is where this money will end up.


18 posted on 02/08/2017 8:05:46 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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There is a reason why both Baker and Shultz are "former" officials
Taxation is a empowerment for unlimited spending, especially when there is no balanced budget
Falsified documentation is what created global warming, climate change, and carbon taxation.
19 posted on 02/08/2017 8:05:54 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt (Muslim & Spanish migrants are like Kudzu--> designed to overload the system= Cloward-Piven)
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“They would then redistribute tax proceeds back to consumers on a quarterly basis in what they call “carbon dividends” that could be approximately $2,000 annually for a family of four.”

Great! This should cover the cost of the gasoline price increase!

Do these people know there is only one CO2 molecule for every 10,000 in the atmosphere??? Their real “enemy” is the sun, not man. And, if the hoopla is to be believed, they have a problem with a longer growing season? Which would cut down on use of petroleum (they are not really “fossil fuels”) because of transportation costs?


20 posted on 02/08/2017 8:06:05 AM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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