Posted on 11/08/2018 8:20:36 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Environmentalists were hoping to score a huge victory in Washington state with a statewide tax on CO2 emissions. Alas, even liberals in Washington don't believe climate change is that big a threat.
Before the election, glowing stories in the press talked about Washington "taking up the fight" on climate change after President Donald Trump dropped out of the Paris climate deal. The state would make history. It would be a "bellwether," and would start a trend across the country.
The initiative proposed a $15 tax on each ton of carbon emissions in the state starting in 2020, with the tax rate climbing each year. It would have cost families in the state nearly $1,000 a year by 2035.
Washington voters rejected even this minimalist step toward fighting what a large majority of them claim to believe is an existential threat to humanity.
Think about it this way. Washington is a deep blue state where Trump got less than 37% of the vote in 2016. Only six states in the nation were more anti-Trump.
Yet 56% of Washington voters rejected the CO2 tax. Only three counties in the state - Jefferson, King (where Seattle is located), and tiny San Juan - voted for the tax.
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Someone must have told them the Trees are sucking up the CO2 for free ,LOL
I could only with that the Washington anti-gun initiative had suffered a similar fate....but it passed 60-40. Hopefully lawsuits (either state or federal) will cause it to be invalidated.
“Alas, even liberals in Washington don’t believe climate change is that big a threat.”
They believe it with their heart and their head, but not with their wallet.
If you really think global warming is a problem
Push solar panels and hydrogen m
Not tax plant food
“Huge Blow In Deep Blue Washington State”
Bill Clinton is already on the plane.
Yup. Liberals will believe anything, as long as someone else pays for it.
When they have to pay for it, ehhh, not so much.
Jefferson, King (where Seattle is located), and tiny San Juan
Jefferson has Port Townsend which is home to many many trust fund babies, wannabe rich hippies, an very poor true believers who are mostly servants to the rest - often working in the local stores the rich bought as a hobby.
King is home to rue believers who never met a socialist Idea they did not love on first emotion.
San Juan (Islands mostly) is home to ultra wealthy environmentalist wackos who left Port Townsend for the good life and the views a few miles further north.
You know why there are so many windsurfers on the Columbia River?
Because Washington blows and Oregon sucks.
Exactly, what friggin morons!
They believe it with their heart and their head, but not with their wallet.
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Yeah, not with their own wallets...but with someone else's money? Tax away!
I think it is time for a constitutional convention. Update the voting rules. If they truly want one person one vote, than it only makes sense to vote by county and congressional district. Most counties that win the state gets the electoral votes.
These freaking idiots do not even know trees need CO2 to produce oxygen. Arggh!
hahhahaha
SO glad we left this idiot state years ago.
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Goebbels is appropriate for Global Warming/Climate Change propaganda but this article actually addresses an unexpected defeat of that propaganda.
King County which contains the largest population of WA State is suffering because Seattle is suffering. Similar to San Francisco, Seattle has huge housing costs and a large growing, homeless population.
No way in Hell is Seattle going to go with any more damn taxes.
That’s why the proposal failed.
It’s a variation on the old gun line, “you can pry my steering wheel from cold dead hands”. Seattle is now L.A. north. I lived up there back in the 70’s and once again in the 90’s. The change I noticed was 24X7 traffic reporting by the 90’s. Even in the middle of the night, traffic is now a problem around the Sound.
And just what the hell do those dolts think giving the gubernment a thousand dollars a year will do to change the freakin climate?
We know it’s just a way to tax stupid people and give money to corrupt people.
How anyone believes that humans can affect the climate is beyond stupid.
It is a testament to the dumbing down of people via public school indoctrination.
The Soviets were right, they got the United States through decades of socialism in the schools.
“Please don’t feed your children to the public schools”
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King County, the only place I know of where a Hobo has a right to urinate on the sidewalk before boarding a bus.
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