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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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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yep. For heavens sake! Why can’t you understand they need the tax money.

Our state had a “raise the gas tax” initiative on the ballot. The governor was on TV pleading about toxic air due to emissions...BUT we do not actually have toxic air, not much industry, far fewer people than CA,

Actually the gas tax would go toward supporting illegal immigrants flooding the place since he declared it a sanctuary state.

Fortunately, it was resoundingly voted down.


21 posted on 11/26/2018 3:10:12 PM PST by Veto! (Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’m confused....Macron can raise taxes on his own accord ? WOW


22 posted on 11/26/2018 3:12:06 PM PST by wardamneagle
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To: sergeantdave

Wil the French bring back the Commitee for Public Safety?


23 posted on 11/26/2018 3:13:00 PM PST by D Rider
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To: a fool in paradise
Are these right wing French nationalists rioting?

It's worse. It's the middle class.

24 posted on 11/26/2018 3:13:11 PM PST by mewzilla (Is Central America emptying its prisons?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

25 posted on 11/26/2018 3:13:42 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Why are the libs suddenly in love with our fired AG/Sessions and want to protect him?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Wait until the wine and cheese rationing hits.


26 posted on 11/26/2018 3:16:26 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Army Air Corps

“The Ruling Class simply can’t have the Peasants roam around the country however they please, whenever they please.”

Several years ago I was listening to a CSPAN recording and a senator said, “We simply can’t allow every American to have an air conditioner.” I live in Florida in a mobile home. I own several mobile homes that I rent. You can’t live in a mobile home without an air conditioner. It’s like living in a toaster oven. I was very angry as I’ll bet this pompous ass has never worked a day in his life.

The thing that juiced the American economy from the 1940’s on was how cheap energy was. The cheaper energy is, the faster GDP grows. Make gas a dollar a gallon and watch the economy explode.


27 posted on 11/26/2018 3:17:14 PM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: Army Air Corps

The citizens of rural France are harmed by these fuel tax increases, not the elites or the globalists. Sad.


28 posted on 11/26/2018 3:19:03 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Haha seems like Macron’s words and actions have struck a chord with the French middle class. How’s that for patriotism you little dweeb. Seems like all hailing the greater good of New World Order and dealing with climate change isn’t as important to the French bourgeoisie as one may have thought given the way they voted. Not when it’s their money your taking.


29 posted on 11/26/2018 3:20:19 PM PST by melsec (There's a track, winding back, to an old forgotten shack along the road to Gundagai..)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This is interesting....

https://www.liberation.fr/amphtml/checknews/2018/11/26/bfm-tv-a-t-elle-montre-une-zone-des-champs-elysees-en-travaux-affirmant-a-tort-que-les-gilets-jaunes_1694289


30 posted on 11/26/2018 3:20:35 PM PST by mewzilla (Is Central America emptying its prisons?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I Love Paris

Every time I look down on this timeless town
Whether blue or gray be her skies
Whether loud be her cheers or whether soft be her tears
More and more do I realize that
I love Paris in the springtime
I love Paris in the fall
I love Paris in the winter when it drizzles
I love Paris in the summer when it sizzles
I love Paris every moment
Every moment of the year

31 posted on 11/26/2018 3:21:07 PM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"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."

WUT!


32 posted on 11/26/2018 3:21:38 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: outofsalt; E. Pluribus Unum

...5,000 tear gas grenades...

This whole hubbub is because of a handful of “ultra-right-wingers” stirring the pot.

Or so I’ve heard...


33 posted on 11/26/2018 3:23:31 PM PST by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
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.

When the "best economic argument" for something isn't an economic argument, you are doing something wrong...

34 posted on 11/26/2018 3:23:38 PM PST by MortMan (Satan was merely the FIRST politician who pretended to speak for God.)
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To: tet68

The Left wants the rest of America to cease exhaling CO2.

In fact, if they truly believe this BS, they should volunteer themselves to stop producing CO2. Lead the way progressives.


35 posted on 11/26/2018 3:25:19 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: carriage_hill

Scientist rip new federal climate report as ‘tripe’- ‘embarrassing’-’systematically flawed’-Key claim supported by study funded by Steyer & Bloomberg.

Link: http://www.climatedepot.com/2018/11/25/scientists-trash-new-federal-climate-report-as-tripe-embarrassing-400-page-pile-of-crap-reports-key-claim-based-on-study-funded-by-tom-steyer/


36 posted on 11/26/2018 3:26:34 PM PST by CharlesMartelsGhost
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Don’t they realize that this was how the Revolution started? Aux armes, citoyens!


37 posted on 11/26/2018 3:28:03 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“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.”

Total Deep State Fake Science. Amazing that not one so-called News entity will question this load of shit.


38 posted on 11/26/2018 3:28:39 PM PST by LeonardFMason (426)
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To: MPJackal

“Sire! The peasants are revolting!”
“Yes, they stick on iceI”

The urban elites won’t be eating much cake when the peasants stop paying carbon taxes to grow it and transport it.


39 posted on 11/26/2018 3:28:50 PM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
“As a recently released report from the U.S. government fabricates demonstrates, climate change does not only have the capacity to destroy the planet in the long term but also to wreck our economy.

Fixed.

40 posted on 11/26/2018 3:31:11 PM PST by piytar (If it was not for double standards, the Democrats and the left would have NO standards.)
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