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'Carbon Pollution' and Wealth Redistribution
The American (American Enterprise Institute) ^ | June 26, 2013 | Benjamin Zycher

Posted on 06/28/2013 8:43:41 AM PDT by Innovative

President Obama’s recently proposed policies will do little to combat climate change — but they will do much for his political and economic objectives.

No crisis should go to waste, an eternal truth highlighted in bold by a purported climate change apocalypse that is now the target of actions newly proposed by President Obama. This so-called "crisis" will flood not various coastlines, but instead the front pages, replacing other, less flattering political headlines for the administration.

And if the proposed actions offer the potential of sizeable wealth transfers to political allies? That is far more than mere icing on the cake. Whatever the weakness of the evidence on greenhouse gases (GHG) and climate effects, the real goal of carbon policy is a regional redistribution of wealth, a reality that explains the inability of Congress to enact such policies since the Clinton administration, when a "Sense of the Senate" resolution rejecting the Kyoto Protocol was approved by a margin of 95-0. President Obama too was unable to convince even a fully Democratic Congress to adopt such policies, and so he now proposes that his Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy implement regulations reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases (GHG).

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: carbontax; climatechange; climatechangefraud; globalwarming; obama; obamaclimatespeech; redistribution; taxes
Wealth redistribution has been Obama's real goal all along.
1 posted on 06/28/2013 8:43:41 AM PDT by Innovative
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To: Innovative

That and the end of America as a constitutional republic.


2 posted on 06/28/2013 8:46:26 AM PDT by RicocheT (Eat the rich only if you're certain it's your last meal)
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To: Innovative

http://www.rferl.org/content/Russian_Scholar_Warns_Of_Secret_US_Climate_Change_Weapon/2114381.html

The Russians copied our HARRP and now they are hacking our climate.


3 posted on 06/28/2013 8:50:05 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Innovative
I am beginning to lose hope in Americans.

A large percentage of the population have fallen for the AWG BS and don't even have a clue what is right around the corner if it gains momentum and any kind of legislation passes.

Expect everything to cost more. Not just gasoline. But EVERYTHING because everything is touched by energy in some way.

Obama talks a good story about how he is concerned for the middle class but this boondoggle and Obamacare are a direct attack on the middle class.

4 posted on 06/28/2013 8:52:24 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: mountainlion

http://www.rferl.org/content/Russian_Scholar_Warns_Of_Secret_US_Climate_Change_Weapon/2114381


Friday, June 28, 2013

Page doesn’t exist

URL, you requesting is not reachable.”


5 posted on 06/28/2013 8:53:25 AM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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Wealth distribution is only a tiny part of what's at the root of Obama's dictatorial action. As the author of the paper sums it up: "the large expansion of government power and centralized planning authority inherent in the proposals is not an end to be pursued."

This is how totalitarianism comes to America.

6 posted on 06/28/2013 8:53:49 AM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: mountainlion

Weird — first I got page doesn’t exist, but then the link worked.

http://www.rferl.org/content/Russian_Scholar_Warns_Of_Secret_US_Climate_Change_Weapon/2114381.html


7 posted on 06/28/2013 8:55:29 AM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Innovative

Carbon taxes and the right to sell carbon offsets are a nothing more than liberal government taxes on breathing. and being alive.

Or, in simpler words, just another greedy liberal wealth redistribution scam.


8 posted on 06/28/2013 8:58:52 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Rubio's New Book: From Nobody To Senator, To Conservative savior, Then Back To Nobody")
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 But the large expansion of government power and centralized planning authority inherent in the proposals is not an end to be pursued.

we know very well that this sort of centralised planning is not the way to run an economy. We’ve that great experiment of the 20th century to prove that to us: central planning simply does not work. Whether we’re talking about tractor production statistics or energy demand, it’s just not the way to get things done.

9 posted on 06/28/2013 9:22:14 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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He has to make sure that his good crony al gore gets his Carbon Credit cut of the $700 Trillion Cap n Trade Tax scams that they want to burden us with.

If they do, we’ll be looking longingly at the astoundingly bright economies of Third World countries


10 posted on 06/28/2013 10:29:24 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are crimes committed by illegal aliens)
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To: dhs12345

*A large percentage of the population have fallen for the AWG BS and don’t even have a clue what is right around the corner if it gains momentum and any kind of legislation passes.*

If the Cap n Trade taxes and like regulations go into effect, it has been projected that it will cost us $700 Trillion.

Obamacare is a drop in the ocean by comparison.

Prepare for total global economic destruction, extreme poverty and hunger for everyone not at the top of the government elite. It’ll make us wish for a world like they had in Soylent Green


11 posted on 06/28/2013 10:32:15 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are crimes committed by illegal aliens)
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To: Iron Munro

(If you drive a car ), I’ll tax the street, [Co2 emissions]
(If you try to sit ), I’ll tax your seat, [methane]
(If you get too cold ), I’ll tax the heat,[all caused by carbon]
(If you take a walk ), I’ll tax your feet. [walking causes you to breathe out more CO2 than acar would expel going the same distance]

Carbon Taxman.


12 posted on 06/28/2013 10:34:58 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are crimes committed by illegal aliens)
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13 posted on 06/28/2013 12:59:16 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (I don't always vote, but when I do, I SURE AS HELL DON'T VOTE DEMOCRAT!)
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