Gov. Inslee is a true believer and in the same wacko-mold as California's Gov. Brown.
The people get a reprieve for now.
This carbon tax would of raised the price of gasoline, diesel and natural gas, which, as usual with progressive social policies, would of hurt the poor and middle-class the hardest.
Someone said, “Stupid is as stupid does...”
This isn’t a victory. It’s a reprieve. And any business that doesn’t plan accordingly will deserve what it gets.
The tax is not on carbon. If it were, it would be on ALL living beings, including plants. Carbon is involved in complex molecules in all living things, and many inanimate things.
So it’s not on carbon. It’s on the fuels that are essential to transportation and production/manufacturing. Those are the “means of production” that marxists want so much for the collectivity to own. They can’t seize them just yet. So they do the next best thing: tax the hell out of them.
They have succeeded in controlling the meaning of the word “carbon.” They have turned it into something evil.
The fun isn’t over. Oregon is pushing a carbon tax. According to Jonathon Gruber, Oregon voters are in the stupid category.
YES!
As a resident of Washington state, I am deeply saddened that this tax did not pass. It had a clear and focused goal, and would have accomplished that goal admirably.
If you support that goal, please donate to “Democratic Slush Fund” on GoF***Me.com.