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Ex-GOP Rep. Ryan Costello joins group pushing carbon tax
The Hill ^ | 01/07/19 | Timothy Cama

Posted on 01/07/2019 8:55:11 PM PST by yesthatjallen

Former GOP Rep. Ryan Costello (Pa.) is signing on to work for a group pushing a business-backed proposal to fight climate change with a carbon tax.

Costello, less than a week out of the House, announced Monday in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece that he’s the new managing director of Americans for Carbon Dividends. The group is the advocacy affiliate of the Climate Leadership Council, pushing a plan by former GOP Secretaries of State James Baker and George Shultz to tax carbon dioxide emissions and return the money to individuals and families on a quarterly basis.

“I understand the legislative process. I have run many a political campaign,” he said. “Dealing with elected officials across the country, I think, will be seamless for me to do. Creating issue advocacy campaigns, identifying the types of members that might be open to this, and frankly, working on the text.”

His opinion piece squarely targets Republicans in Congress and pushes them to endorse a comprehensive climate policy.

“For Republicans to be the party of the future, we need a plan to protect the future,” he wrote. “With the early impacts of climate change plain for all to see, it is high time for the Grand Old Party to embrace its proud historical legacy of environmental conservation by proposing market-based and forward-looking climate solutions of our own.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
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To: Zathras

Baker is the one responsible for the corrupting of some of Reagan’s programs. He beat out the Meese faction re dominance in planning for Pres. Reagan.

A nasty man too. And Schultz. Wouldn’t trust him either. Too much on his cowardice re US foreign policy.


21 posted on 01/07/2019 11:40:10 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Spiridon

OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?


22 posted on 01/08/2019 3:51:16 AM PST by abclily
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To: yesthatjallen

Most are already heavily invested in the scam and want to revive it because they never reached the top of the Ponzi scheme and cashed out


23 posted on 01/08/2019 4:04:26 AM PST by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: abclily

I love your post


24 posted on 01/08/2019 4:28:22 AM PST by hadaclueonce ( This time I am Deplorable)
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To: abclily

They aren’t interested in dealing with the issue, its about using the notion of “climate change” to raise taxes.

Its sort of like talking about how dangerous tobacco is not so you can ban it, but so you can tax it.


25 posted on 01/08/2019 4:46:53 AM PST by Spiridon
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To: yesthatjallen

What is with all the corporate scum supporting all these Global Warming (TM) initiatives?


26 posted on 01/08/2019 5:09:38 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Ya lyublyu kovfefe!)
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To: yesthatjallen

It’s another social transfer tax. In his commentary he says that the majority of American families will get more in carbon dividends than they pay.

He fails to mention how higher prices will surpass the dividend. There will be economic winners, losers, and a healthy cut for the governing class. Plus the added benefit of being able to carve out a exceptions to the tax, impose heavier taxes, etc. in exchange for votes and campaign cash.


27 posted on 01/08/2019 5:48:57 AM PST by FreedomNotSafety
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To: yesthatjallen

Uniparty Republican wants to help pass a new tax. Shocking.


28 posted on 01/08/2019 5:58:24 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: yesthatjallen

> Americans for Carbon Dividends

Taxes are now dividends?


29 posted on 01/08/2019 5:59:21 AM PST by ArcadeQuarters ("Immigration Reform" is ballot stuffing)
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To: Major Matt Mason

A certain segment of the Republican Party has always been willing to hop on-board with ANY Wall Street ponzi scheme. It’s allowed many of them to leave Congress as multi-millionaires.


30 posted on 01/08/2019 6:05:53 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: yesthatjallen

It would have been far more honorable for him to just panhandle on a street corner in his old district.


31 posted on 01/08/2019 6:21:06 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberal is lies.)
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