Posted on 04/16/2018 6:22:34 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Jerry Taylor believes he can change the minds of conservative climate skeptics. After all, he helped plant the doubts for many in the first place.
He’s president of the Niskanen Center, a libertarian-leaning Washington, DC, think tank he founded in 2014. He and his colleagues there are trying to build support for the passage of an aggressive federal carbon tax, through discussions with Washington insiders, with a particular focus on Republican legislators and their staff.
Lesson one: Pick the right targets
Political scientists consistently find that mass opinion doesn’t drive the policy debate, so much as the other way around. Partisan divides emerge first among “elites,” including influential advocacy groups, high-profile commentators, and politicians, says Megan Mullin, an associate professor of environmental politics at Duke University.
Lesson 2: Depoliticize the issue
When Taylor sits down across from them, his standard opening goes: “I understand why you’re skeptical. I probably wrote most of the talking points you’ve read. But I changed my mind, and let me explain why I did.”
Lesson 3: Pick the right policies
Former congressman Bob Inglis, a South Carolina Republican, also argues that the GOP will come around to a carbon tax, particularly if parties can reach a grand bargain that includes the rollback of regulatory efforts like the Clean Power Plan.
Lesson 4: Find areas of common ground
Another strategy that political scientists have advanced for enacting climate-friendly policies relates to the “co-benefits theory.” The basic concept is that many of the same steps that will cut greenhouse-gas emissions will also promote technological innovation, energy independence, national security, air quality, health, and jobs.
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I don't have conclusive facts to support this, but based on his own words, Jerry Taylor fits the profile of a bought-and-paid-for concern troll.
He sounds a lot like:
"I voted for Barack Obama and for Hillary Clinton, and for so many years I supported Planned Parenthood and a woman's choice to have an abortion, but after finding out that Planned Parenthood is a sham that is mainly in business to sell the body parts of aborted infants, I've changed my mind."
Yeah, most people would have some doubts about that.
MIT Technology Review is, at its heart, just as much a leftist-inspired propaganda organ as Scientific American.
A revenue-neutral tax is an oxymoron.
Taxes seldom stay revenue-neutral even if they’re sold to be that in the first place.
Just how stupid do they think we are?
As I said, what is called “liberal” today has NOTHING to do with the classical meaning of Liberal.
It sounds very liberaltarian to me.
I hope they didn’t read Scott Adams’ new book. I like the Warmistas staying in “shrieking totalitarian ex-wife” mode to win the hearts and minds.
>>He’s president of the Niskanen Center, a libertarian-leaning Washington, DC, think tank he founded in 2014.
Libertarian huh?
>>He and his colleagues there are trying to build support for the passage of an aggressive federal carbon tax, through discussions with Washington insiders, with a particular focus on Republican legislators and their staff.
Oh, LiberALtarian. I’ve know a few of those “libertarians” over the years.
So, IOW, he's a commie lib trying to steal more of the American people's money by raising taxes. You can still pollute and destroy da planet as long as you pay us to do it.
So he advocates pushing the fraudulent “science” of manmade global warming using the unethical and immoral science of mind-control.
A tax raised revenue. If there is also implemented a corresponding tax elimination of rate decrease of some other tax then the two taxes would be revenue neutral if their net revenue is 0.
First, no one denies humans can change the climate - the question is how much, and whether it matters? But beyond that, there are MANY reasons to believe the global warming numbers don’t hold up and I guarantee this joker is not the source of those doubts.
Maybe he could persuade more people if he didn’t Pursue it with blinders on. Climate change is not a one cause problem, time to look at a complex resolution.
Since when do libertarians want to increase governmental power?
They have it backwards.
It is politics that has changed to “science” of climate change.
If it were science, nothing like the politics in the article above would be needed.
Hey Jerry fool yourself much?
Oh what a surprise, a republican admitting that they want to raise taxes if they can only figure out how to get away with it. Most GOP are just democrats who have to lie about who they are and what they want to do to get elected.
“Political scientists consistently find that mass opinion doesn’t drive the policy debate, so much as the other way around. Partisan divides emerge first among “elites,” including influential advocacy groups, high-profile commentators, and politicians, says Megan Mullin, an associate professor of environmental politics at Duke University.”
That definitely was true regarding same sex marriage and the transgender delusions. They rammed it through even though the vast majority opposed both. The way they did it is through the courts, the least representative of the three branches. It’s a huge weakness in our system when a few unelected people can override the majority on policy issues.
You sure about that?
“If I want to be a liberal, I’ll be a liberal.
Don’t try to fool me with smooth talking points. They’ll flop.”
They may flop with you, but I’m sure they’ll find a Rat judge eventually that will see it their way.
These bastards are relentless and refuse to take no as an answer.
Please teach your children how to recognize sales/persuasion techniques. These are akin to magic tricks and special effects. Expose them. Knowing how and why mind tricks work is the only defense. Otherwise we are handing over good minds that once upon a time could perceive and evaluate reality. Young minds are the most malleable. Persuaders are coming after the minds of the young. You can start with optical illusions and the explanations of them.
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