Posted on 11/26/2018 2:51:49 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
In France all hell is breaking loose. Parisians, who live in the city of the climate accords that were supposed to save us all, are rioting. More than a quarter million protesters have taken to the streets to revolt against a rising fuel tax amid France's already exorbitant taxes.
Nearly half of France's gross domestic product is already eaten up by taxation. You might think that that frog has already been boiled, yet this environmentally inspired carbon tax proves otherwise. It is the straw that broke the camel's back.
Police deployed over 5,000 tear gas grenades and water cannons against the protesters, who donned yellow jackets for the second weekend in a row.
As a recently released report from the U.S. government demonstrates, climate change does not only have the capacity to destroy the planet in the long term but also to wreck our economy. It's a pressing and significant issue that both the country and the world will have to grapple with before it becomes catastrophic.
But the scenes of France on fire are good reminders that attempts to drive down energy use or drive up its cost tend to suffer from a lack of consent from the governed.
The best economic argument for a carbon tax is that the market price of goods and services resulting in carbon emissions fail to include the true social and environmental costs of carbon emissions. Carbon taxes can result in significant deadweight losses, but a good politician would mostly lean on the economics of a carbon tax to sell it to the people.
Or you might argue, as French President Emmanuel Macron does, that one should prefer the taxation of fuel over the taxation of labor, even though the former is regressive and affects the poor more than the rich.
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Ping.
Oh, they have a choice now do they, lol?
Let them eat cake! Is history repeating itself?
The frogs have jumped out of the pot. If the demonstrators turn the police against the elites, who knows where this ends. It could get messy.
What is a carbon tax? Pay them so I can drive my car while they fly their private jets around the world.
The French are not interested in showing Trump how to save the Erf?
Don’t know why the frogs are complaining, they have the government they wanted and deserve. And anyway, who wouldn’t want the climate to be much colder and they only need to allow the government to keep just a little more of what is really the government’s money. Whiners.
Carbon Tax is just a “Peasant Movement Control” measure. The Ruling Class simply can’t have the Peasants roam around the country however they please, whenever they please.
Right! Let 'em eat cake!
climate change does not only have the capacity to destroy the planet in the long term but also to wreck our economy.
The idea that it can wreck our economy is precisely
why it is being pushed. It has yet to be proven to destroy
the planet.
Pretty much. The Left loves feudalism, so long as the State is the Feudal Lord of all.
Chemical warfare!
Well, well, that is really newsworthy story
They are not Parisians. It is the people from the countryside who are impacted by this tax. They came to Paris to protest, but they don’t live there.
In any case, their movement has been infiltrated by professional rioters who are always up for a good rumble with the gendarmes.
Climate Change — divisive, Leftwing indoctrination.
I suggest they keep Madame Guillotine warmed up and lubed in the wings.
Are these right wing French nationalists rioting?
>>Police deployed over 5,000 tear gas grenades and water cannons against the protesters,
Any women and children hurt by this?
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