carbon tax

Mayor Pete Buttigieg wants the country to take climate change seriously, proposing a nationwide carbon tax to help reduce emissions.

Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore explained how burning of fossil fuels saved life by returning previously trapped CO2 to the atmosphere.

The masterminds of the Green New Deal say a carbon tax would only make up a sliver of funding for the progressive Democrats’ proposal. 

The approval ratings of Emmanuel Macron continue to be in freefall, according to new polling figures which showed support for the French president has plunged to a new low this month.

Representatives from the Yellow Vest movement have said that a temporary suspension of a further tax increase by the government does not go far enough, maintaining the taxes should be cut altogether.

A columnist at a Philadelphia newspaper believes climate change is responsible for natural disasters, murder and riots in Paris.

“Donald Trump has broken the climate spell,” says a must-read article by Rupert Darwall. [Rather surprisingly, it’s in the NeverTrump Weekly Standard].

Netflix host “Science Guy” Bill Nye has a new solution for the world’s environmental problems: taxing cow farts.

France’s new president, Emmanuel Macron, has criticized President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, stating that the United States “has turned its back on the world.”

A California appeals court denied a challenge to the state’s lucrative cap-and-trade program by California business owners on Thursday—who argued the program constituted an illegal tax.

Americans for Tax Reform, American Energy Alliance, and other conservative groups requested a meeting with Gary Cohn to discourage the idea of a carbon tax.

What do you call it when The Washington Post, which hates Republicans, seeks to advise them on what to do? That is, when the Post pretends to be offering honest constructive advice to the GOP? As in, do this, and it will be good for you. Maybe we could call it the Post Pretense, or the Post Ponzi, or the Post Prevarication. Or maybe we should just keep it simple and call it the Post Put-On.

Former White House Chief of Staff James Baker and other Republican insiders are lobbying the White House to enact a carbon tax, much to the dismay of conservatives.

“I screwed up the economy, your jobs and your mortgages so – hey – I’m just the guy you can trust to tell you what to do about climate change!”

Beltway Republicans, including former Treasury Secretary James Baker, lobby National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn to enact a carbon tax at the White House today. Ivanka Trump, her husband Jared Kushner, and Trump’s Chief of Staff Reince Priebus are also expected to attend.

Donald Trump should pursue a regressive, counterproductive, pointless tax policy to deal with a non-existent problem because it’s “what the Gipper would have wanted.”

President-elect Donald Trump may have demonstrated another instance of veering from his core campaign policy platforms with a major cabinet selection in his likely Secretary of State pick, ExxonMobil CEO and chairman Rex Tillerson.

Five U.S. Republican Senators sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch demanding that she end the Department of Justice (DOJ) witch hunt against political opponents of President Obama’s energy agenda. They warn her that any improper assertion of federal investigatory or prosecutorial power is an abuse of power.

On September 21, 2010, the Secretary of State announced the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (Alliance) at the Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (GCI)—with the Clinton Foundation being one of the “Strategic Partnerships and Alliances.” By November 2014, more than $400 million had been raised for the project.

Jerry Brown tried to introduce the concept of implementing a “revenue-neutral carbon tax.”

President Obama is not alone in wielding governmental power to clamp down on carbon-emitting energy. While he weaponizes the Environmental Protection Agency to take on coal-powered energy, potentially shutting down hundreds of coal-fired power plants, Alberta’s new socialist NDP government is pushing ostensibly environmentally-minded policies against oil on shared premises of combating “climate change.”

The American economy is sick with government control. Ronald Reagan would want to deal with that problem before he’d be willing to consider any fresh taxes aimed at providing “insurance” against “climate change” — which, in any event, hasn’t proven to be a threat in decades.