How to Fight Climate Change if You’re a Democrat
There can really be only one option if you want to fight climate change and are a Democratic member of Congress; raise taxes, of course. Lots:
“I’m trying to have everybody understand that this is going to cost and that it’s going to have a measure of pain that you’re not going to like,” Rep. John Dingell, who is marking his 52nd year in Congress, said Wednesday in an interview with The Associated Press.
Dingell will offer a “discussion draft” outlining his tax proposals on Thursday, the same day that President Bush holds a two-day conference to discuss voluntary efforts to combat climate change.
But Dingell, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee that will craft climate legislation, is making it clear that he believes tackling global warming will require a lot more if it is to be taken seriously.
“This is going to cause pain,” he said, adding that he wants to make certain “the pain is shared in a way that is fair, proper, acceptable and accomplishes the basic purpose” of reducing greenhouse gases, mainly carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels.
Dingell certainly likes that word “pain,” doesn’t he? Just exactly what kind of “pain” does the Michigan Congressman have in mind?
A 50-cent-a-gallon tax on gasoline and jet fuel, phased in over five years, on top of existing taxes.
A tax on carbon, at $50 a ton, released from burning coal, petroleum or natural gas.
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What Dingell is offering is a quick way to get the country into a deep recession. And this is what we have to look forward to if a Democrat is elected president.
Read the whole thing.
If there is no other reason to vote Republican, the abysmal economic ignorance of the Dems is enough.
BTW, Charlie Rangel also has a monster tax increase in the works. More on that in an upcoming article.
