Politics Of Fear: Senator Boxer Says If Cap And Trade Tax Doesn’t Pass There Will Be Drought, Famine
With the cap and trade carbon tax stalled in the Senate, Democrats are getting desperate. Which is coming through in their rhetoric as Senator Boxer got positively biblical, as in Moses warning the pharaoh, talking about the plagues America will face if this tax isn’t passed.
WASHINGTON — If the Senate doesn’t pass a bill to cut global warming, Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer says, there will be dire results: droughts, floods, fires, loss of species, damage to agriculture, worsening air pollution and more.
She says there’s a huge upside, however, if the Senate does act: millions of clean-energy jobs, reduced reliance on foreign oil and less pollution for the nation’s children.
Boxer is engaged in her biggest sales job ever. The stakes couldn’t be higher as she faces one of the toughest high-profile acts of her lengthy career: getting Congress to sign off on historic legislation to lower greenhouse-gas emissions.
What puzzles me is how anyone can say with a straight face that a cap and trade carbon tax is going to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Domestic producers of energy sources like coal and oil are going to be hit hard by any cap and trade tax, while importers struggle under no such impediment. As for “clean energy jobs,” any jobs that are legitimately created (and not simply mandated into existence with more government spending of money it doesn’t have) are likely to be more than offset by the disastrous impact the carbon tax will have on our economy once it makes everything more expensive, thus diminishing the purchasing power of our dollar.
It’s not surprising that Democrats are getting biblical in their prophesies of doom should the cap and trade tax not pass. The only way Americans are going to agree to this boondoggle is if they’re scared into supporting it.
