Posted on 12/13/2019 6:35:08 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
NEW YORK - Conservative youth leaders in the United States launched a nationwide campaign on Wednesday to promote a carbon tax to combat global warming, defying the Republican Party and opposition to climate measures by President Donald Trump.
Drawn from Republican groups on more than two dozen university campuses, the Young Conservatives for Carbon Dividends called for laws to tax oil, natural gas and coal producers of planet-warming greenhouse gases.
The taxation plan would make fossil fuels more costly while the resulting revenues would go to taxpayers.
“We claim to be the party that cares about the future that our children will inherit, and we need climate policy that reflects that,” said Kiera O’Brien, 21, a senior at Harvard University who co-founded the group.
“We are offering up what we see as the common sense solution and the way forward for the party,” O’Brien told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
A lack of climate action was a “vulnerability” for the national political party headed by Trump, who is seeking re-election next year, the college Republicans group said.
The group backs a market-based solution, calling for an initial $40-a-ton tax on carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, at mines, wells or ports where it is produced. The tax rate would increase over time.
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Huh?
Fake news. A ripple in a bathtub is not a tidal wave.
Fake “Conservative” groups.
Probably about as conservative as Catholics for Choice are Catholic, or the American Civil Liberties Union is for America, or...
Fake conservative group, probably funded by Bush League Republicans who are really Democrats in R jerseys, the enemy within.
False flag psyops.
Right, that sentence is an insult to one’s intelligence.
Calling BS on this.
Why not just let the "taxpayers" keep their money in the first place?
Wonder which leftist billionaire or celebrity is funding them.
Taxes would go to raising New Orleans. \
How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn’t make it a leg.
— Abraham Lincoln
These are not Conservatives. These are communist activists.
Both parties fully infiltrated, both parties fully useless save for Donald Trump.
Cute baby Rinos.
I’m hearing this more and more from some supposedly conservative members of the GOP.
Socialist utopian nations tend to burn the furniture and give up on toilet paper and call that great progress.
Kiera O’Brien, 21, sounds really, really smart. Harvard you say? That means she is a lot smarter than us Conservatives. I know I will,change my evil, carbon using ways. In fact, I plan on walking everywhere, and donating my entire salary to the government. In fact, this will be my last post because I won’the use that evil electricity that was generated from coal or oil. All hail the Republican Party! Let us all pray in the dark and cold for the good of the planet, and the Republican Party!
Young Conservatives for Carbon Dividends is a new offshoot of The Years Project.
The Years Project has a home on Facebook and is at https://theyearsproject.com/.
The Years Project mission: “To compel measurable and effective action on climate change through trusted storytelling across all media.”
They love (victim of parental child abuse) Greta.
“Never go full retard”
Drawn from Republican groups on more than two dozen university campuses, the Young Conservatives for Rent-Seeking Grifters...
There. Fixed it.
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