Posted on 02/02/2018 6:15:11 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
SEATTLE When President Trump was candidate Trump, he called climate change a hoax. Since taking the Oval Office, hes said very little about greenhouse gasses and their impact on the planet. But he did issue a statement that he plans to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Agreement, which aims to reduce emissions as a way to stop global warming.
But West Coast states are driving in the opposite direction, with designs of erecting a green wall built on taxing carbon.
This is both an economic benefit for the state of Washington and a job creator, said Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat. Jobs in the clean energy sector are growing twice as fast as the rest of the economy.
In Inslees State of the State address, he announced his plan to put a tax of $20 per ton of carbon emitted. The tax would go up 3.5 percent every year. The result will be taxing residents every time they fill up their tanks at the gas pump, every time they turn the heat on at their home and even when they plug in their electric vehicles.
Businesses, like Boeing that compete internationally, would be exempt from the tax. The hit to residents and small businesses is expected to be $3.3 billion over the first four years. The money would go to so-called green jobs.
Critics see it as a money grab that wont have any impact on climate change.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Why not raise taxes to 100%? Government can redirect everything and we can save the erf!
Go for it...hike them enough to force companies to relocate into the south. When your only real job is coffee shop barista...go figure your tax tax revenue plan.
Two states out of the running for Amazon’s new HQ...
Critics see it as a money grab that wont have any impact on climate change.
Actually any word one with a functioning brain can see that.
To a liberal idiot, there isn’t a problem on Earth that cannot be solved by raising taxes...................
Their new soda tax is such a hit I’m sure this won’t be a problem!!! ~sarc off
Under the wonder of Federalism as implemented by our Founding Fathers, they are perfectly free to do so.
LOL
Money will go to the homeless so they don’t build fires that add to global warming.
I think California has demonstrated the answer to that is forever.
The smart voters vote with their feet leaving the idiots behind to continue to collect welfare and a few productive people who cant bare to leave that pay taxes.
Looking forward to the tax hike and the bleating that will be coming in those two (near) Communist states. Reap what you sow!
I agree. Why are FReepers complaining? If blue state hellholes want to commit economic hari-kari, go for it! Just don’t move and then demand that my state does the same.
It sure is fortunate that individuals and corporations have money for our benevolent and selfless politicians to confiscate, otherwise we’d all be doomed to be a bunch of fried eggs under the blazing sun!
and, those paying the taxes moving to states that don't take as much in taxes.
Grrrrr. If I didn’t love the beauty of the trees, mountains and saltwater, I would have already left this dem run state.
Easier said than done.
When your only real job is coffee shop barista
= = =
Add Carbon tax for the energy used to roast the beans (and heat the water).
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.