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Carbon Tax and the Green Deal: The EU’s Climate Heist Is Underway
The American Spectator ^ | June 20, 2025, 10:03 PM | Thomas Kolbe

Posted on 06/21/2025 12:43:54 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The EU cloaks supranational tax increases in green.

On the hunt for fresh sources of cash, the European Commission has zeroed in on households and motorists. A planned expansion of the EU’s carbon pricing scheme to include home heating and transportation fuels is set to plug Brussels’ gaping budget deficit — at the expense of its citizens. What we are witnessing is a fiscal smash-and-grab dressed up in green.

Starting in 2027, private homes, small businesses, and passenger vehicles will be folded into a second emissions trading system (ETS2), placing them under the strict control of EU-level cap-and-trade mechanisms. This bureaucratic power grab is less about saving the planet and more about saving Brussels’ finances. With its budget running an annual deficit of €30 billion, the Commission is desperate to stabilize and expand its institutional reach, both within the EU and on the global stage. (RELATED: Europe’s Energy Suicide: Brussels Trades Industry for Ideology)

Emission Sleight of Hand and Market Rigging

By manipulating the price of emissions certificates under ETS2, Brussels hopes to generate up to €705 billion in new revenue between 2027 and 2035. The incentive to inflate prices — to the breaking point of households and small industries — could not be clearer. The only constraint? Not killing the golden goose entirely. Expect a level of ruthlessness here that we’ve never seen applied to immigration policy or bureaucracy reform. And all this despite growing resistance from member states like Hungary, Italy, and Slovakia. (RELATED: Germany’s Suicide Pact with Green Ideology)

The EU’s bureaucratic machinery is insatiable. It continues to push its agenda deeper into citizens’ wallets under the moral cover of “climate protection.” Shielded by a curtain of NGOs and a compliant media complex, Brussels rolls out its green transformation agenda with an efficiency...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; European Union; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: capandtrade; carbontax; climatechange; climatechangehoax; energy; ets2; eu; europe; europeangreendeal; eussr; fourthreich; fraud; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greendeal; racketeering; ripoff; scam; thebeast

1 posted on 06/21/2025 12:43:54 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And Hawaii doing it here
New tourist green tax


2 posted on 06/21/2025 12:47:21 PM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT back in 2006)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Once everybody is paying 100% of their income towards taxation... The Socialist will declare victory.

Carbon taxes, green taxes and coming soon... Breathing taxes.

How many more new taxes can they create? And BTW - Have we not already paid for world war I about ten times over by now?


3 posted on 06/21/2025 12:53:03 PM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
This bureaucratic power grab is less about saving the planet and more about saving Brussels’ finances.

And, eventually, more total control. If they ever establish a complete digital currency, they will be able to track everything. To them, everything has a carbon footprint. With digital currency, they can charge an additional carbon tax.

And the ultimate control will be your individual carbon allocation. From each according to their ability, to each according to their need. (with the unelected EU determinating what you really "need.")

Imagine a daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and, yes, lifetime carbon allotment. If you go over your weekly allotment, you can use your yearly or lifetime credits. Once you reach your lifetime limit...... Oh, well.

4 posted on 06/21/2025 1:04:39 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try - AND - Every Time You Fall Down, Get The Frak Up! )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The “Your Next Breath Tax” is next.


5 posted on 06/21/2025 1:10:12 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Trump has arrived and it is awesome to have a real President.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; All

The “Big Beautiful (Bloated) Bill” still has wind & solar subsidies in it (currently in the Senate).


6 posted on 06/21/2025 1:15:30 PM PDT by Drago
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€705 billion in new revenue between 2027 and 2035. €705 billion over nine years is €78 billion per year. Spread that across all 22 EU countries and you’ve got €3.6 billion/year-country.

As much as I hate the green theft, I don’t think that will kill the member countries.


7 posted on 06/21/2025 1:17:06 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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As much as I hate the green theft, I don’t think that will kill the member countries.
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No, but it won’t help their citizens much by charging a carbon tax on home heating oil.


8 posted on 06/21/2025 3:57:35 PM PDT by HenpeckedCon
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As much as I hate the green theft, I don’t think that will kill the member countries.

Agreed. The new "Asians" in the EU are telling themselves that the whites there are implementing a jizya tax.

9 posted on 06/21/2025 4:53:40 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
€705 billion in new revenue between 2027 and 2035. €705 billion over nine years is €78 billion per year. Spread that across all 22 EU countries and you’ve got €3.6 billion/year-country.

As much as I hate the green theft, I don’t think that will kill the member countries.


With an average of 16.6MM people per EU country, that's $220 per person per year. Not that bad, until you realize a huge portion of the population won't be paying in (poor, renting, etc) so that cost will fall squarely on homeowners.
10 posted on 06/22/2025 8:58:53 AM PDT by Svartalfiar (-)
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And average income is probably low, so that’s a big hit on each family.

That’s a per-person number, too, not a per-family number. So it could be a huge hit on each family.


11 posted on 06/22/2025 9:09:56 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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