Plan Uses Taxes to Fight Climate Change

The Washington Post ^ | September 26, 2007 | H. JOSEF HEBERT

[magellan]

WASHINGTON -- Dealing with global warming will be painful, says one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress. To back up his claim he is proposing a recipe many people won't like a 50-cent gasoline tax, a carbon tax and scaling back tax breaks for some home owners.

"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.

[SkyPilot]

The Democrats Are Now Taxing The Weather???

[Carbonado]

“Dealing with global warming will be painful, says one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress”

No, HEARING about Glo-Bull warming, the invented false science that is really just Liberal politics dressed up in bogus technical sounding “reports”, is what is painful.

I swear the Glo-Bull warming zealots are kind of like the flagellants during the Black plague, except that it isn’t themselves that must experience the pair of self sacrifice, it is the “little people” who must be whipped and scarred. If only the little people will listen to and sacrifice as the enlightened zealots want, heaven itself will come to Earth under THEIR pious leadership.

But isn’t that always the way with Libs/Socialists/Communists? Their proscription's apply to everyone but themselves, naturally. They are much too important to give up their private jets, industrial sized mansions or Hummers. We just need to accept that some people are more equal than others, and enlightened Libs are more equal than anyone. They certainly do.

[pankot]

It’ll be just like Social Security, the bastards will steal every dime and leave IOUs for the next generation. Impeach Congress!

[pankot]

It must be the dingleberries in Michigan who elect him.

[ricks_place]

A 50-cent-a-gallon tax on gasoline, ouch! Michigan Democrat Rep. John Dingell must beleive that General Motors 73,000 UAW union members are way too many. It was 300,000 plus at one time. Rep. Dingle should be ashamed to promote this Drive-a-Toyota Act!

[RinaseaofDs]

Democrats have never met a tax they didn’t like. The man isn’t fit to hold the office.

[Lancey Howard]

Nothing surprising here.
The “global warming” scam has always been about the money.
With socialist liberal Democrats, it’s ALWAYS about the money.

[stylin19a]

Al Gorp will finally get his BTU tax....

[ApplegateRanch]

They gonna’ try to pay off God?

More likely, try to bribe Satan.

[Politicalmom]

PING!!

FReepmail to be added to the Congress Watch Ping List.

Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Thus the beneficiaries are spared the shame and danger that their acts would otherwise involve... But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to the other persons to whom it doesn't belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish that law without delay. ... No legal plunder; this is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony and logic.- Frederic Bastiat

[Man50D]

Note there is no plan to use the taxes to fix the environment, it is simply a plan to punish people.

The tax code and specifically the IRS are no longer used to collect taxes but are used as a means of control and punishment by the Socialists. Fortunately there is a bill before Congress The Fair Tax Act Of 2007 that will remove the Socialist control by abolishing the IRS and all federal income taxes and replace them with a consumption tax. Fair Tax ping!

[maine-iac7]

Well, there’s a great boon for pubbies to use on the campaign trail

[Razz Barry]

Odd, how our climate woes changed from South Americans destruction of their rain forests, to our driving suvs. Guess they found the South Americans had no money. What/who will be next? IMHO, anyone complaining about global warming but not calling for sending 12 million +++ illegal immigrants home, should STHU.

[Bigun]

The tax code and specifically the IRS are no longer used to collect taxes but are used as a means of control and punishment by the Socialists.

Absolutely correct and they have said so.

TAXES FOR REVENUE ARE OBSOLETE by Beardsley Ruml, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

If we are ever again to be a truly FREE people we MUST rid ourselves of the communist inspired income tax and the IRS.

http://www.fairtax.org

[G8 Diplomat]

We have to pay extra taxes to try to fix something that we have no control over? It’s the sun, stupid. CO2 emissions are not the cause of global warming. Only a Democrat would do this...he’s gonna punish us for something we didn’t do. As if gas prices aren’t high enough already...

[redlocks322]

Here’s something to talk/think about.... is global warming real or is this just another avenue for taxes and government control of our lives? People better wake up and realize what’s coming. Before long, we’ll all be taxed out of our homes, cars, and way of life all for the sake of fighting “climate change”.

When you hear politicians, scientists, environmentalists, friends, or co-workers spouting their “information” on how this this the worst climate change in recorded history - ponder the following questions: just when did daily recorded weather history start - wasn’t it in the last two centuries or so? Isn’t earth older than the last couple of centuries? So how do you know what the weather was doing 1,000 years ago in any specific area?

Before jumping on the “climate change” bandwagon - I would propose the following question: since when are we humans more powerful than God? I believe this so called climate change is nothing more than earth’s own cycle and there’s not one man/woman/child on earth that can change that with man-made taxes and laws. The governnmet and man is not bigger and better than God, and there should not taxes and laws based on the idea they are.

Folks need to remember that Satan’s role on earth is to DECEIVE and he will use anyone and anything and go to great lengths to achieve that goal. Let’s not let Mr. Gore’s climate change “hype” cause us to lose our focus on our Heavenly Father and His Greatness, for He Alone created earth, and He Alone can destroy it.

[longtermmemmory]

TRANSLATION: Taxes will be used to cripple a successful industry to help an unsuccessful industry.

Buggy whip makers rejoice.

[jmcenanly]

I suppose if the weather turns cooler, it will be our fault, and so heating oil, electricity and wool will be subject to punitive taxation. Whatever the weather, the solution is always greater taxation

[momf]

If a congresscritter manages to spend 52 years in Congress, either he’s smart as a snake, or to stupid to get another job.

Strike that smart....insert arrogant, self-serving, comfortable at the public trough.

No, insert from a district that is stupid enough to allow it!!! Proof positive we need term limits! If looking at the Byrd’s flocking around Washington doesn’t scare us just wait until her highness gets back to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. If that happens, they might as well issue the children their little brown shirts.