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You have to love the argument that carbon taxes work because emissions drop afterwards, proving their thesis.
No, it’s diminished economic activity as the state withdraws wealth and productivity from output, with the poorest hurt most.
Just drive down economic growth with tax increases and voila – reduced emissions. World, saved.
Then renewables kick and we’re stinking rich, cleaned and correct. Two out of three isn’t bad for government work eh?
After data adjustments and homogenization of course. Anyway someone gets stinking rich. I can’t quite pronounce the name.
It all must be a lie. Al Gore says unreliables are getting cheaper by orders of magnitude every second. It has been more than a decade now since science has taken us past the point where energy is free because green generation replicates by magic with no cost to anyone. Therefore, since energy is free, everyone in Ontario is lying about paying hydro bills; cause green energy has eliminated all possible reasons for billing.
That must be a chart illustrating the massive spike in all the … “clean green jobs” created by the carbon taxes !! Woo hoo!! That’s the REAL story behind the BOOMiNG Trump Ecomony … it’s all the “clean green jobs exploding on the economy!! A real Hockey Stick, Already … of green economic growth!
Yeah … sarc. way the hell off.
Not too long ago I read a comment on twitter that made me smirk. The guy said that a lot of what progressives believe is “fairy tales for aduts”. The condescending snarkiness appealed to me but I never gave it much thought. When you do think about it, there’s a disturbing amount of truth in the nasty quip.
Fairy tales for children: tooth fairy, Santa, Easter bunny. If you are good, believe hard enough and trust your parents (authority figures) then you’ll get free things.
Fairy tales for adults: cheap wind & solar power, carbon neutral taxes, carbon rebates. If you do as you’re told, believe hard enough in green power and trust the experts then you’ll get cheap power, carbon rebates and save the world.
The standard defense about increasing retail prices as wind and solar power increase is to redirect to levelized cost. Again, green energy proponents aren’t being honest brokers because levelized cost has problems – it ignores the cost intermittent and variable power, the cost of backup power, etc. Search for Sun, wind and drain from The Economist.
Thomas Sowell
“We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.”
The problem is that, unlike conservatives, leftists work to engage the power of GOVERNMENT in an attempt to get their fairy tales implemented.
Leftists and socialists see government as the ultimate power.
That’s why they attempt to kick God out of the picture because he’s not only a competitor against government, he has been known to shatter it. Just ask the Pharaoh of the Exodus.
The results of leftist attempts to implement their fairy tales via government result in, in virtually all cases, result in suffering and death.
Conservatives don’t like government because they see it as a velvet glove on an iron fist. As government grows, it crushes more and more around it. The wealthy think they’re immune but they don’t remember what happened to the wealthy and the middle class in Russia when the Soviet Union came into existence.
The trouble with those fairy tales is that they are just that: fairy tales. They have no basis in reality. The consequences in attempting to implement them are usually horrific for those who would dare push back.
“Conservatives don’t like government because they see it as a velvet glove on an iron fist. As government grows, it crushes more and more around it.”
Conservatives love government when it’s crushing those they want crushed ex War on Drugs, War on Immigrants, etc
That chart up above shows that as bad as a carbon tax is, there are far worse things.
Crept that carbon tax is totally random dood.