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Americans want a tax on carbon pollution, but how to get one?
The Guardian ^ | October 23, 2017 | by Dana Nuccitelli

Posted on 10/23/2017 11:48:12 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Leaning Right

I think they polled the snowflakes in Yale’s “Super-Safe-Space”.


41 posted on 10/23/2017 12:01:27 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Carbon Tax? Gun Control? This a-hole is all over the place.


42 posted on 10/23/2017 12:01:37 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

More fake news.


43 posted on 10/23/2017 12:03:06 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Slap a tariff on Chinese made goods to make them pay for their carbon pollution.


44 posted on 10/23/2017 12:03:14 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Who spends $100 a month on energy bills? More like 200-300 and up. Where do these children get their information?

Paging Joseph Goebbels.


45 posted on 10/23/2017 12:03:43 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What Americans want that?


46 posted on 10/23/2017 12:04:40 PM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In other news, a recent UK study found that 86.5% of British men’s gonads are the size of grape seeds. The other 13.5%, immigrant males, have normal-sized or larger gonads.


47 posted on 10/23/2017 12:04:44 PM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Since when does “willing to pay” mean “want”. Typical socialist double-speak.


48 posted on 10/23/2017 12:05:08 PM PDT by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This American wants a tax on poll pollution.


49 posted on 10/23/2017 12:07:23 PM PDT by chris37 (Take a week off racist >;-)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Do they mean the three Americans they asked in the Guardian loo on the top floor?

They cannot mean AMERICANS in total. Seriously. What nimrod would even make a blanket statement like that?

Could it be someone who still (silly person) thinks the media runs the agendas of the USA?


50 posted on 10/23/2017 12:07:59 PM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The left loons at the Guardian telling lies to push their agenda. Mind your own business. We don't want more taxes. Especially not in support of a socialist hoax.
51 posted on 10/23/2017 12:08:54 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Just a quick story to prove how false and phony this claim is:

Here in Massachusetts there has been a line on the state income tax return form...the state's equivalent of the 1040 long form....that would be funny if it wasn't so transparent and disgusting.

That line gives taxpayers the opportunity to pay at a tax rate that's higher than is required by law. IOW it gives taxpayers the opportunity to "donate" money to the state treasury...money that they're not required by law to pay.

Howie Carr,a great Boston radio talk host occasionally reports the percentage of filers who opt for this higher rate.Last time I heard him mention it the number who did was somewhere in the hundreds...that in a state of 6 million that went 65%-30% for ILLary.

52 posted on 10/23/2017 12:09:51 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.


53 posted on 10/23/2017 12:10:45 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
This result is consistent with a survey from last year that also found Americans are willing to pay an average of $15 to $20 per month to combat climate change.

Yeah they will cut the cord to save money on entertainment but will spend $20 a month on a problem they can't see. Uh huh.

54 posted on 10/23/2017 12:11:18 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: IC Ken

Well, it seems the college would just pass the cost along.

I’m not sure how you stop that if the leadership of the college approves of it.


55 posted on 10/23/2017 12:11:45 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (John McBane is the turd in the national punch-bowl.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I think you misunderstood the results of the poll Guardian. Americans want a carbon tax on the rest of the world with the receipts coming here.


56 posted on 10/23/2017 12:11:58 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We do? We support an additional tax on something that ISN’T a pollutant?

There is no “carbon pollution”, just more plant food. Anything that discusses “carbon pollution” goes in my garbage pile.


57 posted on 10/23/2017 12:12:05 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No we don’t want a tax...FU


58 posted on 10/23/2017 12:17:32 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
BS!!!!
59 posted on 10/23/2017 12:17:39 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If people were capable of critical, analytical thought, they’d see:

1. There is zero need for a tax. If all liberals led by example, the (non-existant) problem would end. All they have to do is cancel their electricity and natural gas service, sell the car, and never fly on an airplane again. The rest of us normal people could then get on with our lives. The side benefit is all the progs could feel so smug and superior knowing they “are doing something.” They would have a deep well to draw upon for their virtue-signaling.
2. $20 per month on every person’s energy bill would do nothing. It isn’t enough to build (questionable) carbon sequestration plants, build enough windmills and solar plants to replace fossil fuels, or convert the economy to hydrogen. I doubt that amount even equals 10% of the sum paid today for all subsidies and grants to “green energy” companies, climate “researchers,” and tax breaks paid to people who install the hallowed, magical solar cells.
3. $20 per month will not change anybody’s behavior one iota. People will still use as much energy as before.
4. The government would piss away all that money on other things. Not one red cent would go to “fighting global warming.”
5. It’s is all a hoax, sham, and lie designed to rob us of freedom and enslave us by elite know-it-alls.


60 posted on 10/23/2017 12:18:04 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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