Posted on 10/31/2018 7:54:05 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Election 2018: Next week, voters in five states will decide whether they want to raise their own taxes, kill jobs and lower their standards of living. All in a fanciful effort to stop "global warming." They'd be better off letting the free market do the work.
Washington, Arizona, Nevada and Colorado all have global-warming ballot initiatives, each heavily financed by environmental activists. New Mexico voters will decide whether to elect a powerful land commissioner who promises stiff curbs on emissions.
None of these will make any difference in the global climate. But they will cost their residents dearly.
In Washington, voters will decide whether to be the first state to impose a carbon tax. Initiative 1631 would slap a $15 tax on each ton of CO2 emissions starting in 2020. That would climb by $2 every year after that.
Voters in these states should know that while they're deciding whether to impose these costs on themselves, the free market has been making huge inroads in cutting CO2 emissions, without any carbon taxes, mandates or Paris climate accords.
Next week, voters in these five states will have a unique opportunity to send a loud message to the rest of the country. Namely, that they aren't buying the global-warming hysteria.
We can only hope they do so.
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If Gillum wins here in Florida, I might move back to Connecticut...
That doesn’t sound all that much better.
“witnessing the antics of his fellow NATIONAL SOCIALIST WORKERS in the democrat party”.
We all have to remember that the ENVIRONAZIS are foremost and primarily NAZIS.
Labels are important and labels should always be COMPLETE.
And horses FART, that’s METHANE, a primary greenhouse gas.
Your Amish friends would be fined and charged out the wahzoo for contributing to GOREBALL WARMING.
Don’t forget Sacramento and San Francisco.
Global Warming and Man-made Warming are two different things. But , they want you to believe they are the same.
“...labels should always be complete....”
Forgive me.
I left off the “lowlife scu&bags” part of the label.
(A scu&bag by any other name is still a scu&bag.)
IMHO
I’m a southern Nevada resident where we have brutally hot summers.
The Nevada initiative would make air conditioning unaffordable. Air conditioning is not a matter of comfort but a matter of life and death with the southern Nevada summer temperatures.
Around 80 per cent of the population of Nevada is in the Vegas Valley. The electric bills would devastate this part of the state and drag down the rest of the state with it.
As electric bills rise people would be forced to cut back on air conditioning and heat-related fatalities will rise.
One of the immutable laws of nature is that any cause back by “liberals” always leads to death and destruction.
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