Ralph Nader: You know what the U.S. needs? A brand-new $340 billion annual bad-weather-prevention tax The best solution for climate change is a carbon tax
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WSJ Op Ed: ‘The climate-change justification for a carbon tax is bogus’ — ”Will the Carbon Tax Make a Comeback?’
In Germany, for example, an initial VAT rate of 10% has climbed to 19%, and in France the rate is 19.6%, up from 13.6% initially. Several European countries have VAT rates above 20%.
What’s more, the climate-change justification for a carbon tax is bogus. Greenhouse-gas emissions are rising in China and other emerging economies, not in the United States. Carbon-dioxide emissions in the U.S. have been declining and by 2035 will return to 2005 levels, the Energy Information Administration projects.
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500 police bust Deutsche Bank over €300 million carbon trading scam
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Here come the climate bills! Sen. Boxer announces plans to form ‘climate change caucus’ — ‘I think you are going to see a lot of bills on climate change’
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Watch Now: Climate Depot’s Morano on Fox News on carbon tax: ‘They are trying to ride Hurricane Sandy all the way to the bank. The bank is setting the stage for a carbon tax here in DC’
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Analysis: A Carbon Tax is ‘Climatically Useless’ — ‘No matter how much you pay with a carbon levy, virtually nothing is received climatically’
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Claim: ‘America’s carbon tax offers a lesson to the rest of planet on fighting climate change’: ‘Thanks to extreme weather events, Republicans are slowly accepting that government has to intervene’
…Sen. Vitter: Carbon Tax Discussions Should Be Done Openly
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Sen. Vitter Pushes Treasury for Transparency with Carbon Tax E-Mails — Also asks Geithner to provide economic reasoning for pushing carbon tax
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Pavlov’s Dogs: ‘Pavlov demonstrated that it is possible to create very strong associations between things that have no relationship to each other’
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