Prominent Conservatives Argue for a Carbon Tax to Address Climate Change

[SZonian]

With President Trump and Republicans in Congress moving swiftly to repeal regulations that slow global warming, a group of prominent conservatives on Wednesday touted a different potential solution — a carbon tax that pays cash dividends to Americans.

In a paper titled "The Conservative Case For Carbon Dividends," op-eds in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal and a press conference in Washington on Wednesday, former advisers to presidents Nixon, Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush argued for phasing out most of the EPA's power to regulate carbon dioxide pollution and replacing it with a carbon tax.

"Increasingly, climate change is becoming a defining issue for this next generation of Americans, which the GOP ignores at its own peril," the eight prominent conservatives, including James Baker, Henry Paulson and George Shultz, each of whom held cabinet positions for Republican presidents, wrote in the report.

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http://www.seeker.com/prominent-conservatives-argue-for-a-carbon-tax-to-address-climate-chan-2250232545.html

"conservatives" my a$$...

[geronl]

"Conservatives" they are not.

[LateForLunch]

For the love of God, let's be merciful - cut off their heads.

Obviously they come from voting districts where a significant number of voters have drunk the Kool-Aid.

Accepting the premise of the AGW conjecture in any slightest degree, no matter how small would be a grievous error. It only invites a sophistic dialectic to develop from it which will gradually but inevitably move the discussion more and more onto the platform that the Reality Deniers wish. Only a politician who is more focused on their own personal electoral fortunes than on what is best for the country could possibly endorse such patent lunacy.

[geronl]

For the love of God, let's be merciful - cut off their heads.

Obviously they come from voting districts where a significant number of voters have drunk the Kool-Aid.

None of the mentioned people are holding any office.

[dfwgator]

None of the mentioned people are holding any office.

There appears to be a reason for that.

[INVAR]

And prominent "Conservative" Bill Kristol has essentially said that White Middle Class America is too privileged and too lazy and needs to be replaced by third world immigrants.

So, "prominent Conservative" planks appear to be Climate Change and open borders.

So who needs the GOP when you can vote Democrat and get the same damn thing?

[LateForLunch]

And prominent "Conservative" Bill Kristol has essentially said that White Middle Class America is too privileged and too lazy and needs to be replaced by third world immigrants.

So, "prominent Conservative" planks appear to be Climate Change and open borders.

So who needs the GOP when you can vote Democrat and get the same damn thing?

hah hah the article is from something called "Climate Central" an AGW-advocacy publication which states AGW as a fact, not a speculative conjecture (part of the "alternate reality" of leftists and especially AGW fanatics - stating opinions as facts). AKA "RINO bait".

Ever notice how leftists alter how they write about self-described conservtives? When the same people are supporting some leftist BS, they are referred to respectfully as "prominent conservatives" but when they aren't they are referred to derisively as "far-right wingers". Yet, no leftist publication ever refers to any leftist, no matter how extreme their rhetoric as "far left". Even nuts like Pochahontas and Crazy Bernie Sanders are referred to only as Liberals.

The "prominent conservatives" are AKA "the usual suspects". There are always some minuscule number of self-described "conservatives" who are outliers which capitalize on their past prominence to attain current relevance. These eight (including Baker, Paulsen and Shultz) are among the worst.

Cut. Off. Their. Heads.