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Parisians are now rioting against the Paris climate accords
Washington Examiner ^ | November 26, 2018 02:51 PM | Tiana Lowe

Posted on 11/26/2018 2:51:49 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

In France all hell is breaking loose. Parisians, who live in the city of the climate accords that were supposed to save us all, are rioting. More than a quarter million protesters have taken to the streets to revolt against a rising fuel tax amid France's already exorbitant taxes.

Nearly half of France's gross domestic product is already eaten up by taxation. You might think that that frog has already been boiled, yet this environmentally inspired carbon tax proves otherwise. It is the straw that broke the camel's back.

Police deployed over 5,000 tear gas grenades and water cannons against the protesters, who donned yellow jackets for the second weekend in a row.

As a recently released report from the U.S. government demonstrates, climate change does not only have the capacity to destroy the planet in the long term but also to wreck our economy. It's a pressing and significant issue that both the country and the world will have to grapple with before it becomes catastrophic.

But the scenes of France on fire are good reminders that attempts to drive down energy use or drive up its cost tend to suffer from a lack of consent from the governed.

The best economic argument for a carbon tax is that the market price of goods and services resulting in carbon emissions fail to include the true social and environmental costs of carbon emissions. Carbon taxes can result in significant deadweight losses, but a good politician would mostly lean on the economics of a carbon tax to sell it to the people.

Or you might argue, as French President Emmanuel Macron does, that one should prefer the taxation of fuel over the taxation of labor, even though the former is regressive and affects the poor more than the rich.

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KEYWORDS: climatehoax; fakescience; france; globalwarming; gorebullwarming; hoax; propaganda; socialism; un
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Don't they realize it's for their own good?
1 posted on 11/26/2018 2:51:49 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ping.


2 posted on 11/26/2018 2:53:35 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Or you might argue, as French President Emmanuel Macron does, that one should prefer the taxation of fuel over the taxation of labor

Oh, they have a choice now do they, lol?

3 posted on 11/26/2018 2:55:20 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Let them eat cake! Is history repeating itself?


4 posted on 11/26/2018 2:55:23 PM PST by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The frogs have jumped out of the pot. If the demonstrators turn the police against the elites, who knows where this ends. It could get messy.


5 posted on 11/26/2018 2:56:31 PM PST by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What is a carbon tax? Pay them so I can drive my car while they fly their private jets around the world.


6 posted on 11/26/2018 2:56:44 PM PST by just me (God bless President Trump and the USA)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The French are not interested in showing Trump how to save the Erf?


7 posted on 11/26/2018 2:57:47 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Don’t know why the frogs are complaining, they have the government they wanted and deserve. And anyway, who wouldn’t want the climate to be much colder and they only need to allow the government to keep just a little more of what is really the government’s money. Whiners.


8 posted on 11/26/2018 2:57:47 PM PST by rigelkentaurus
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Carbon Tax is just a “Peasant Movement Control” measure. The Ruling Class simply can’t have the Peasants roam around the country however they please, whenever they please.


9 posted on 11/26/2018 2:59:25 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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The Ruling Class simply can’t have the Peasants roam around the country however they please, whenever they please.

Right! Let 'em eat cake!

10 posted on 11/26/2018 3:00:44 PM PST by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

climate change does not only have the capacity to destroy the planet in the long term but also to wreck our economy.

The idea that it can wreck our economy is precisely
why it is being pushed. It has yet to be proven to destroy
the planet.


11 posted on 11/26/2018 3:00:54 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Don Corleone

Pretty much. The Left loves feudalism, so long as the State is the Feudal Lord of all.


12 posted on 11/26/2018 3:01:53 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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"Police deployed over 5,000 tear gas grenades"

Chemical warfare!

13 posted on 11/26/2018 3:02:14 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Well, well, that is really newsworthy story


14 posted on 11/26/2018 3:02:41 PM PST by Lee25
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They are not Parisians. It is the people from the countryside who are impacted by this tax. They came to Paris to protest, but they don’t live there.

In any case, their movement has been infiltrated by professional rioters who are always up for a good rumble with the gendarmes.


15 posted on 11/26/2018 3:03:52 PM PST by proxy_user
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Climate Change — divisive, Leftwing indoctrination.


16 posted on 11/26/2018 3:04:06 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And the democrats fear this reaching the news cycle, because they wanted this to strike here in the USA first.


17 posted on 11/26/2018 3:04:49 PM PST by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: Army Air Corps
Pretty much. The Left loves feudalism, so long as the State is the Feudal Lord of all.

I suggest they keep Madame Guillotine warmed up and lubed in the wings.

18 posted on 11/26/2018 3:06:01 PM PST by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Are these right wing French nationalists rioting?


19 posted on 11/26/2018 3:08:21 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committtee)
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>>Police deployed over 5,000 tear gas grenades and water cannons against the protesters,

Any women and children hurt by this?


20 posted on 11/26/2018 3:08:55 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committtee)
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