The Global Carbon Tax Revolt

Wall Street Journal ^ | December 3, 2018

[BunnySlippers]

... and who will be our next Trump? I fear he is a one-off.

[Stosh]

Sounds like the leftist frogs need to get busy developing nuclear-powered cars.

[Flintlock]

Carbon??
Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah..............I don’t think so.

Does “Carbon” have anything to do with closing FOURTEEN nuclear power plants?? Really?

[libertylover]

Nothing reveals the disconnect between ordinary voters and an aloof political class more than carbon taxation.

To the aloof $7.00/gal gas is just a number on a piece of paper and not a real problem.

[HotHunt]

".... People who have spent time in America France told me that the rural Americans French are decent, hard working and very pleasant. It’s the suburban’s who are the nasty layabout Leftists....."

Mimics the US exactly. It's the metropolitan folks who are the liberals in this country.

[central_va]

So where do the globalist hacks at WSJ call the whole “climate change” thing a hoax? I don’t see that.

[central_va]

Trump should hold a MFGA rally in France.

[jpl]

The French people (or at least some of them) are smart enough that they figured out all this B.S. isn’t really about “climate change”. If it was, they wouldn’t also be trying to shut down nuclear plants, they would be building MORE nuclear plants!

This was another attempt at ushering in the George Soros - led agenda to implement modern feudalism on a global scale and turn the middle class into peasants who totally depend on the ruling overlords.

[bgill]

Macron could help by stopping his breathing out.

[HotHunt]

Climate change has never broken into the top 20 things Americans want our government to "fix".

The Dutch think-tanker Bjørn Lomborg and author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, is a strong advocate for focusing attention and resources on what he perceives as far more pressing world problems than climate change, such as AIDS, malaria, malnutrition and clean water.

He argues that many of the costly measures and actions adopted by scientists and policy makers to meet the challenges of global warming will ultimately have minimal impact on the world's rising temperature.

IOW, spending a dollar on climate change solutions, such as carbon taxes, to save a nickel in outcome, is not sound economic or scientific advice.

Spending all of our resources trying to stop climate change, which has the least bang for the buck in outcome versus solving world hunger or ensuring everyone has clean water to drink, doesn't make sense.

We can solve many of those problems now and they will have a greater impact on populations than the dire warnings on the climate changing in a hundred years will have.

Spending all of our money on something people can't see concrete results from now, is a non-starter for the majority of the population.

[Gritty]

...the rural French are decent, hard working and very pleasant. It’s the suburban’s who are the nasty layabout Leftists.

That's about how it is in this country, too.