The Global Warming Policy Forum
Date: 21/12/17
The Atlantic
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https://www.thegwpf.com/its-all-over-u-s-republicans-reject-carbon-tax/Despite much cajoling and prodding from fellow conservatives, the party didn’t adopt a climate policy in the new tax bill. It’s clear that much of the sales pitch for a carbon tax that has been aimed at Republicans has fallen flat.
The Republican tax-reform bill, which passed Congress Wednesday, makes some big changes to the federal government. It repeals Obamacare’s health-insurance mandate, temporarily expands the child tax credit, and permanently cuts taxes on corporations and the wealthiest Americans.
What it doesn’t do: impose a new tax on carbon dioxide, the heat-trapping gas that warms the globe and acidifies the oceans.This might not come as a surprise, as only some GOP politicians accept that global warming — which a carbon tax is meant to slow — is real (sic). But passage of the tax bill will end a year of prodding, cajoling, and storytelling from leaders in both parties — including sitting senators and Reagan-administration alumni — that tried to force senior Republican leadership into considering some kind of plan to soften the blow of global warming.
