Jeff Flake Will Introduce Bill To Raise Taxes Before Leaving Senate

[Right_in_Virginia]

Jeff Flake Will Introduce Bill To Raise Taxes Before Leaving Senate
Daily Caller, Dec 19, 2018

Outgoing Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake will soon co-introduce legislation to tax carbon dioxide emissions, according to news reports.

Flake, who will not be returning to Congress next year, and Delaware Sen. Chris Coon, a Democrat, will introduce their carbon tax bill as soon as Wednesday. The bill is unlikely to go anywhere with just two weeks left in the current legislative session.

Flake and Coon’s bill will be the Senate companion to bipartisan House carbon tax legislation introduced in November. The Washington Times first reported of Flake’s carbon tax bill Wednesday, and The Hill later confirmed it.

Like the House bill, Flake’s carbon tax bill would tax emissions at $15 per ton — a rate that would rise $10 per year until greenhouse gas emissions, hitting $100 per ton in 2030. All of the revenues raised through the tax will get rebated to households to compensate for higher energy costs.


More:  https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/19/jeff-flake-raise-taxes/

[Right_in_Virginia]

It's an bleeping miracle the President has gotten any of his agenda through Congress.  A bleeping miracle.

[Frank Cannon]

All of the revenues raised through the tax will get rebated to households to compensate for higher energy costs.

Yeah, because electricity is so cheap now.

BTW I would like to remind people that Flake ran and won this seat claiming to be a Tea Party style Conservative. You can't trust any of these slugs anymore. They're all self serving liars.

[Free Vulcan]

This guy is even more of a pathetic gasbag than Kasich.

[Wingnut]

What a peach of a guy.  A real peach.

[XenaLee]

Jeff Flake Will Introduce Bill To Raise Taxes Before Leaving Senate
Daily Caller, Dec 19, 2018

Outgoing Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake will soon co-introduce legislation to tax carbon dioxide emissions, according to news reports.

Flake, who will not be returning to Congress next year, and Delaware Sen. Chris Coon, a Democrat, will introduce their carbon tax bill as soon as Wednesday. The bill is unlikely to go anywhere with just two weeks left in the current legislative session.

Flake and Coon’s bill will be the Senate companion to bipartisan House carbon tax legislation introduced in November. The Washington Times first reported of Flake’s carbon tax bill Wednesday, and The Hill later confirmed it.

Like the House bill, Flake’s carbon tax bill would tax emissions at $15 per ton — a rate that would rise $10 per year until greenhouse gas emissions, hitting $100 per ton in 2030. All of the revenues raised through the tax will get rebated to households to compensate for higher energy costs.

More:  https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/19/jeff-flake-raise-taxes/

Anyone stupid enough to believe that....

will probably be elected to public office ... so that they, too, can serve (up) taxpayers on a silver platter.

We're screwed, IOW.

[Applewood]

Like I said elsewhere, being Republican and being a conservative are not one and the same.  We talk about tax and spend Democrats, but the sad fact is there are quite a number of tax and spend Republicans too. 

And this bill is why I don't like any bipartisan legislation.  Every piece of bipartisan legislation screws us peons royally.  Any Republican who is willing to "work with the Democrats" should be bounced out of office the next election.

[Sanguine]

True to form.

[austingirl]

I hope we've heard the last of him, but he's probably busily plotting against America in some fashion. He'll resurface in some role.

[Cyber Liberty]

And Flake's turn to the Dark Side is now complete.  Bye, bye Traitor Flake.

[Cyber Liberty]

I hope we've heard the last of him, but he's probably busily plotting against America in some fashion. He'll resurface in some role.

Probably in the Obastard for America PAC.