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Old-Guard Republicans to Push Carbon Tax at White House Meeting
« on: February 08, 2017, 08:50:21 pm »

Old-Guard Republicans to Push Carbon Tax at White House Meeting
by Jennifer A Dlouhy
and Margaret Talev
February 7, 2017, 6:34 PM CST February 8, 2017, 10:19 AM CST

    Former White House advisers, cabinet secretaries pressing tax
    Trump’s economic adviser Gary Cohn among scheduled attendees

A group of prominent Republicans and business leaders backing a tax on carbon dioxide were taking their case Wednesday to top White House aides, including chief economic adviser Gary Cohn.

The group, including former Treasury Secretaries Hank Paulson and James Baker, is pressing President Donald Trump to tax carbon dioxide in exchange for abolishing a slew of environmental regulations. They unveiled their plan with a press conference in Washington and an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-02-08/prominent-republicans-begin-push-to-tax-carbon-cut-regulations
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Re: Old-Guard Republicans to Push Carbon Tax at White House Meeting
« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2017, 08:58:24 pm »
"Climate change poses an unacceptable risk to our climate and to our economy," Paulson said in a statement. "Putting a price on carbon is by far the most efficient and effective way to restrict emissions."

Paulson went on to say "We don't give a shit how high the tax is because all of it will be payed by the consumer."
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Re: Old-Guard Republicans to Push Carbon Tax at White House Meeting
« Reply #2 on: February 08, 2017, 09:02:04 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on February 08, 2017, 08:58:24 pm
"Climate change poses an unacceptable risk to our climate and to our economy," Paulson said in a statement. "Putting a price on carbon is by far the most efficient and effective way to restrict emissions."

Paulson went on to say "We don't give a shit how high the tax is because all of it will be payed by the consumer."


More left wing media echo chamber crap filling people's head with wrong (incorrect)  ideas.   

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Re: Old-Guard Republicans to Push Carbon Tax at White House Meeting
« Reply #3 on: February 08, 2017, 09:25:15 pm »
"A group of prominent Republicans and business leaders backing a tax on carbon dioxide "

Hmmmm.....Some say that:

"We have to elect the Republican NO MATTER WHAT"

Hmmmm.....Others say that:

"Any Republican is better than a Democrat"

I dunno. Maybe It's just me, but there seems to be some correlation with those three sentences. But what?????
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Re: Old-Guard Republicans to Push Carbon Tax at White House Meeting
« Reply #4 on: February 08, 2017, 11:30:15 pm »
Carbon is one of the more common elements in the world. It'd figure the government would want to tax it.
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Re: Old-Guard Republicans to Push Carbon Tax at White House Meeting
« Reply #5 on: February 08, 2017, 11:37:47 pm »
Quote from: Norm Lenhart on February 08, 2017, 09:25:15 pm
"A group of prominent Republicans and business leaders backing a tax on carbon dioxide "

Hmmmm.....Some say that:

"We have to elect the Republican NO MATTER WHAT"

Hmmmm.....Others say that:

"Any Republican is better than a Democrat"

I dunno. Maybe It's just me, but there seems to be some correlation with those three sentences. But what?????

This is why many of us left the Uniparty and consider the GOP as bad or worse than the Democrats.

The Establishment GOP is simply carrying on Obama's agenda for him.

Statism is Statism, regardless which of these cretins from Mordor on the Potomac is in power.
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Re: Old-Guard Republicans to Push Carbon Tax at White House Meeting
« Reply #6 on: February 09, 2017, 04:27:17 am »
News articles like this make me all the more satisfied that Trump won out over the "prominent" Republicans, and that he is the right man for the times ahead...
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Re: Old-Guard Republicans to Push Carbon Tax at White House Meeting
« Reply #7 on: February 09, 2017, 04:39:14 am »
Quote from: Fishrrman on February 09, 2017, 04:27:17 am
News articles like this make me all the more satisfied that Trump won out over the "prominent" Republicans, and that he is the right man for the times ahead...


We'll see how many prominent Republicans there are in Congress. Not too many, I hope.
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Re: Old-Guard Republicans to Push Carbon Tax at White House Meeting
« Reply #8 on: February 09, 2017, 08:25:10 am »
I'm trying to grasp the gist of their proposal.  It sounds like their argument is that trading one tax (regulations) for another would be a win/win.

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Re: Old-Guard Republicans to Push Carbon Tax at White House Meeting
« Reply #9 on: February 09, 2017, 12:30:04 pm »

Awesome, let's give the government the authority to tax breathing.  What could possibly go wrong?

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Re: Old-Guard Republicans to Push Carbon Tax at White House Meeting
« Reply #10 on: February 09, 2017, 12:32:54 pm »
Quote from: Just_Victor on February 09, 2017, 12:30:04 pm
Awesome, let's give the government the authority to tax breathing.  What could possibly go wrong?
With the declaration (by a SCOTUS Chief Justice, no less) that the "Penalty" of "Fee" for not buying insurance is, indeed, a "tax", they already do tax breathing. Stopping is the only way to avoid one penalty or the other.
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Re: Old-Guard Republicans to Push Carbon Tax at White House Meeting
« Reply #11 on: February 09, 2017, 01:22:11 pm »
Carbon tax and 'going green' ... just a way to control the populace and confiscate their money.  We'll see what happens....

"..Trump himself has come out against the idea, rejecting a carbon tax in responses to a survey by the American Energy Alliance last March. Many of the conservative advocates guiding Trump’s energy and environment policy also eschew the idea.

The approach also runs counter to Trump’s campaign promise to help bring back coal-mining jobs. Because it generates more carbon dioxide emissions than natural gas and oil, coal would be the fossil fuel hardest hit by a tax on carbon."
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