The opening line says “pay for costs of climate disasters” but later “exact use not determined” with some lip service to “communities of color.”
It’s a slush fund which will raise gas prices and disproportionately effect the working poor, middle class and “communities of color” who generally can’t afford to own brand new Tesla or eTron or Mustang Mache. And can’t buy carbon offsets like wealthy celebrities and politicians.
Have we ever seen future taxation based on past data not ongoing circumstances? Why is Exxon liable rather than consumers or auto companies?
To: newzjunkey
if they were responsible for at least .05 percent of global carbon dioxide and methane emissions between 2000 and 2019 Ex post facto?
-PJ
2 posted on
08/05/2021 12:32:53 AM PDT by
Political Junkie Too
(* LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
To: newzjunkey
“Why is Exxon liable rather than consumers or auto companies?”
Have you EVER seen a corporate tax that DIDN’T get passed right along to consumers?
YOU AND I are on the hook for this!
3 posted on
08/05/2021 12:35:12 AM PDT by
HKMk23
(Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.)
To: newzjunkey; All
These jerks should see what China and India have been doing pollutimg this planet for the last five decades.
4 posted on
08/05/2021 12:36:00 AM PDT by
Cobra64
(Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
To: newzjunkey
This is an ex-post facto law, and is unconstitutional, but it’s not like unconstitutionality means anything any longer.
5 posted on
08/05/2021 12:39:06 AM PDT by
krogers58
To: newzjunkey
“Possible uses include building more climate-resilient infrastructure, particularly in disadvantaged communities and communities of color…”
Funnel Cover Speak. Nearly everything now.
Just like O-BodyMortgageNoCare.
❎
7 posted on
08/05/2021 1:04:57 AM PDT by
Varsity Flight
( "War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18)
To: newzjunkey
We already have pollution laws on the books.
If they failed to enforce what is already on the books, making ex post facto laws doesn’t fix their incompetence.
8 posted on
08/05/2021 1:05:51 AM PDT by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
To: newzjunkey
Why would ANYONE EVER vote for dems? I don’t get it.
To: newzjunkey
CO2 is plant food. It is not pollution.
11 posted on
08/05/2021 1:27:30 AM PDT by
FatherofFive
(We support Trump. Not the GOP)
To: All
I guess they didn’t donate enough to democrats.
14 posted on
08/05/2021 1:56:14 AM PDT by
newnhdad
(Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
To: newzjunkey
15 posted on
08/05/2021 1:57:01 AM PDT by
Nateman
(If the Left is not screaming , you are doing it wrong.)
To: newzjunkey
I hope the donkeys do this...Gas prices will skyrocket and the voters will throw the bums out.
16 posted on
08/05/2021 2:45:54 AM PDT by
Drango
(1776 = 2021 = 1984)
To: newzjunkey
major greenhouse gas emissions to pay for the costs of climate disasters. 75% of the CO2 in the atmosphere comes from nature.....
18 posted on
08/05/2021 3:37:38 AM PDT by
Hot Tabasco
(Without potatoes, life has no meaning......)
To: newzjunkey
Intellectually dishonest thieves!
19 posted on
08/05/2021 3:39:44 AM PDT by
Chgogal
(#GulagNancy is going all Cuba on Trump Supporters.)
To: newzjunkey
“major polluter”
I’m still trying to figure out where the ‘pollution’ is in this article. It can’t be Carbon Dioxide, since that gas is released by all living animals, maybe Sulfur Dioxide, Carbon Monoxide, Toxic Metals, something?
I’ll check again.
20 posted on
08/05/2021 4:10:53 AM PDT by
BobL
(I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
To: newzjunkey
And any tax will be offset by higher prices for energy at customer expense...
Liberals hate cheap reliable energy...
21 posted on
08/05/2021 6:56:53 AM PDT by
Crim
(Palin / West '16)
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