Posted on 04/27/2018 6:03:51 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Austin will celebrate Earth Day on April 29 with a festival on the beautiful grounds of Huston-Tillotson University. They will pay tribute to the unique ecosystems of Texas and the Hill Country, the animals and plants that make our region so spectacular.
Earth Day is also a potent call to action. So, it is extremely gratifying that Austin’s leadership has heeded the intent of Earth Day with bold action. On Thursday, the City Council signed a resolution endorsing a powerful climate change solution called carbon fee and dividend, making Austin the first city in Texas to do so.
Carbon fee and dividend is an economic policy that puts a price on carbon at the point of extraction. It then redistributes all the revenue to taxpayers on a per-capita basis, making it a revenue-neutral system. To protect American businesses, a border tariff will adjust for trade with countries that don’t put a price on carbon.
Now, with their resolution in support of carbon fee and dividend, Austin’s leaders have propelled Austin into the ranks of those forward-looking cities. The Austin City Council deserves commendation for recognizing that a healthy future for our planet and the citizens of Austin requires action.
Similar action should now be considered by Austin’s congressional delegation, which should take the city’s recommendation and introduce legislation that promotes a policy of carbon fee and dividend at the national level. The ball is rolling; we just need to keep it moving.
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A newspaper article talking “science”.
But, they do agree with Dr Al Gore, resident genius, scientist, and noted D student in college.
Have you ever noticed that they never mention what it is changing into ? It’s always just changing.
It’s like going but never moving.
Austin, including Yeti, can pound sand where the sun don’t shine.
IF they want to all live in the 17th century....fine, it’s a free country.
But leave the rest of us to hell alone.
Where’s the Goebbels’ pic?
Murdered her,stuffed her in a foot locker,placed the foot locker in his closet where it sat for two years before being discovered by the police.He then went on the lam,having help from a billionaire heiress,and went to Ireland (no extradition treaty),Sweden and France.
When arrested he cut his own throat thinking that that would convince the European courts to let him stay.
Typical progressive...laws are for *other* people.
No matter what these useful idiots are protesting, the solution is always raping the taxpayer and giving it to the cultural Marxists.
And the problem is always with America or Americans - never anyone else in the world.
There is no man made climate change. None
Man made climate change is a lie, not science.
Very few would argue that earth’s climate changes. There is ample proof of that fact. The lie is that MAN has the ability to change the earth’s climate.
I feel sorry for those children that are buying into that lie, they are the ones that will pay the price if this insane belief is acted on.
Ah, the Austin American Statesman (a.k.a. Austin anti-American Pravda) can always be relied upon for nannyism.
Austin, thy hometown; where we build bike paths but won’t build new highways. Traffic is just terrible.
“...making it a revenue-neutral system”
That’s a lie right there. They always find ways to skim a little off the top, for administrative purposes, don’t you know. Something like %90 for them and %10 goes back to the tax payer.
The Goal is to KEEP AUSTIN WEIRD. Bless their hearts.
“Carbon fee and dividend is an economic policy that puts a price on carbon at the point of extraction. It then redistributes all the revenue to taxpayers on a per-capita basis, making it a revenue-neutral system. To protect American businesses, a border tariff will adjust for trade with countries that don’t put a price on carbon.”
So, if I understand this correctly, it is ok to pollute the planet, you just have to pay someone for the right to do it.
“Austin cares,” like this makes something accurate or correct?
The rest of Texas doesn’t “care” about what Austin cares about, so why should Congress? What a bunch of dope-smoking airheads.
The Austin A-S is less credible than the NY Times ... liberal crap.
Global Warming on Free Republic here, here and here
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