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Global warming talk heats up, revisits carbon tax
US News & World Report ^ | November 13, 2012 | By SETH BORENSTEIN

Posted on 11/13/2012 4:35:52 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON (AP) — Climate change is suddenly a hot topic again. The issue is resurfacing in talks about a once radical idea: a possible carbon tax.

The idea was considered so radical that in 2009, when President Barack Obama tried to pass a bill on global warming, that he instead opted for the more moderate approach of capping power plant emissions and trading credits that allowed utilities to pollute more. That idea, after passing the House, stalled in the Senate in 2010 and has been considered dead since.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climategate; failure; hoax; taxes
Karl Marx is smiling.
1 posted on 11/13/2012 4:36:01 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Much of the socialist agenda is about to become “hot topics” again.


2 posted on 11/13/2012 4:41:44 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The right thing is not always the popular thing)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

>>Karl Marx is smiling.<<

As are Hitler, Stalin, Pol, Franco, Mao and Engels. And those bastards FDR and LBJ.


3 posted on 11/13/2012 4:42:54 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Here comes bama claus here comes bama claus left down bama claus lane!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Democrat Senators can pass it now. Let ‘er rip!! Republicans, vote “present”. Let them own it. Global “warming” usually works out to where whenever those pushing it are followed by BLIZZARDS everywhere they go. Us “evil rich Republicans” should follow their “global warming” spokesmen with “Blizzard Demonstrations” whenever they fly into town on a jet plane for one of their summits.


4 posted on 11/13/2012 4:42:54 PM PST by Twinkie (Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I will pay no ObamaCare or carbon taxes. Write that down.


5 posted on 11/13/2012 4:44:42 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: freedumb2003

Yeah, smiling from the depths of Hell!


6 posted on 11/13/2012 4:46:09 PM PST by DLfromthedesert
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To: Twinkie

If it died in the Senate in ‘09, wouldn’t they have to pass it again in the House?


7 posted on 11/13/2012 4:48:31 PM PST by DLfromthedesert
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Here the bass turds come! What’s in YOUR wallet! Thanks “lady parts” voters! Outflukingstanding job! You get a trophy and a tribe-size box of condoms!


8 posted on 11/13/2012 4:51:02 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Global temperatures have been declining for 2000 years when you don’t use the fraudulent data used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The Tree Ring Data Scandal
http://cfact.eu/2009/10/03/the-false-tree-ring-data-scandal/

New tree ring study shows 2000 years of cooling
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/09/this-is-what-global-cooling-really-looks-like/

Extreme weather is an integral part of the Earth’s climate.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/10/extreme-weather-is-an-integral-part-of-the-earths-climate/ (IPCC).

9 posted on 11/13/2012 4:53:26 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the psychopath.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Carbon taxes will be included in your electricity bill, and Obamacare allows the government to take money directly out of your bank account.


10 posted on 11/13/2012 4:53:30 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The right thing is not always the popular thing)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obama has the EPA and isn’t worried about reelection. He doesn’t need congress.


11 posted on 11/13/2012 4:53:49 PM PST by umgud (No Rats, No Rino's)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

bump #5


12 posted on 11/13/2012 5:00:11 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

A.) I use the VA medical system, which is mostly free, since I’m at 40% and (B.) I haven’t had a bank account since about 2006, for several reasons. Will they place me in debtor’s prison?


13 posted on 11/13/2012 5:05:44 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, you’re one step ahead of me (referring to real progressivism). Do you have a 401K? The liberals are trying to get at that too.


14 posted on 11/13/2012 5:29:24 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The right thing is not always the popular thing)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

I don’t even have a 201J! LOL


15 posted on 11/13/2012 5:48:21 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: umgud
Obama has the EPA and isn’t worried about reelection. He doesn’t need congress.

Why is it so few around here "get it?" If they don't now they soon will! Forget Congress, it's done. Now we have Commie-Czars to run the country Obama's way.

16 posted on 11/13/2012 6:07:34 PM PST by Bernard Marx
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To: DLfromthedesert

Yes; I suppose they would have to pass it again in the House. It’s junk science that does not warrant regulations and taxes that businesses and people cannot afford. - Just because the Liberal Democrat Socialists WANT global warming to be true doesn’t make it true. A “pass it just to be on the safe side” argument doesn’t cut it. -

Now, though, it will be “the eevilll Republicans” want to poison your air and water and melt the Polar ice caps and kill all the polar bears” rant over and over.


17 posted on 11/13/2012 6:20:38 PM PST by Twinkie (Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
Obamacare allows the government to take money directly out of your bank account.

That's a pretty rash statement. Care to cite chapter and verse from the law to back up your claim?

18 posted on 11/13/2012 6:25:14 PM PST by upchuck (We are not finished yet. But when nobama chooses some more SCOTUS judges, we will be. For ever.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

OK. “that” . . . :o)


19 posted on 11/13/2012 6:27:18 PM PST by Twinkie (Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Bammy’s gas prices are high enough.

Unless the global socialists can produce the coin operated thermostat that controls the globe’s weather, they need to sit down and shut up. Algore and his pals are not getting their scam carbon market “commody” based on their scam claim to be able to control the temperature of the earth.


20 posted on 11/13/2012 8:17:24 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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