A Government Created Carbon Tax Is The Ultimate Free Market Solution Or Something

By William Teach January 26, 2019 – 3:57 pm

Here we go again. The Cult of Climastrology just can’t give up a good talking point, and these Statists think things implemented and run by the government are free market. Not sure who Erik Kobayashi-Solomon is and what he really stands for, but, as a big time investor (I worked as a hedge fund risk manager, an investment banker in Tokyo and New York, a Market Strategist for Morningstar and as the Director of Research for a financial data start-up in Chicago) you’d think he would understand the difference

Carbon Tax: The Ultimate Free Market Solution To Climate Change

Thanks to a particularly odious little troll of a man and to a writer whose two major works the late, great Christopher Hitchens describes as “transcendently awful”, the word “tax” has a nearly obscene connotation.

Nonetheless, it is clear to me that a carbon tax, similar to those implemented in major economies throughout the world, should be broadly implemented here in the United States – the second largest emitter of carbon dioxide in the world.

Well, sure, he’d probably make a lot of money off fleecing middle and lower class citizens.

Unlike a lot of mush-minded Greenies, I am under no illusion that a tax on carbon emissions will discourage people from burning carbon-based fuel or will serve just retribution on wasteful capitalists. Nor do I think that the taxing authority will use the collected funds for anything other than a typically idiotic boondoggle. In fact, I do not even believe that a carbon tax will do anything to stop the near-term effects of climate change (there is plenty of heat stored in the ocean, and those chickens will take decades to come home to roost).

Not a very convincing argument, eh?

No. My reasoning is based completely on free market considerations.

Humans do one thing phenomenally well: adapt to obstacles. If there is a mountain in front of us, we’ll climb it, build a tunnel through it, construct a road around it, and throw up a scenic overlook on the side of it.

The pure expression of human adaptability is the free market system.

Before June 2007, no one even realized that not being able to watch their favorite superhero movie while commuting to work was even an obstacle to overcome. Now, try to take a commuter train or subway (or even an elevator) without taking your smart phone out of your pocket.

OK, you’re welcome to read the rest of this silliness, but, let it be noted that it was really the private sector which developed the ability to watch that movie, not government placing taxes on your entire life, jacking up your cost of living to finance the movies and development of the technology.

Again, the government passing any type of carbon tax legislation, then setting the terms and pricing while running the whole thing has nothing to do with a free market. It is forcing the market to respond. It is rather what is called Socialism.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 26, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a walkway needed to cross a flooded world*, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on limerick thoughtcrime.

*yeah, yeah, perhaps a bit of a stretch, but, I’ve said I could find a link with just about any photo, and someone sent me this one to do just that.

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Democrats Worried That Border Battle Distracts From ‘Climate Change’ Fight

By William Teach January 26, 2019 – 10:30 am

Right, right, they’re very worried about an issue that many Americans care about in theory, but, in practice? Not so much

DEMOCRATS WORRY BORDER WALL BATTLE IS DISTRACTING FROM THEIR CLIMATE AGENDA

House Democrats are concerned that President Donald Trump’s fight for wall funding and the government shutdown is derailing their attempts to target the administration’s climate agenda, Politico reported Thursday.

Nearly a dozen Democrats admit that dealing with the partial shutdown is distracting from their ultimate objective: wrapping the administration in probes and resuscitating a wayward climate push. Democratic Rep. Paul Tonko of New York, for instance, believes a lot of unfinished business is being placed on the back burner.

“It’s holding back everything and it’s terrible because there’s lot of unfinished business and a lot of important work to do,” Tonko, the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee, told reporters. “The shutdown is causing that disruption.”

House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone of New Jersey backed away from a plan to place climate change front and center.

“I had previously announced our first three hearings never believing that this shutdown would still be going on when this Committee had a chance to organize,” the Democratic congressman said in a statement. “Those critical hearings on climate change, the future of the Affordable Care Act and oversight of the Trump Administration’s inhumane Family Separation Policy will still occur, but they will not be next week.”

Democrats are itching to jump on board the so-called Green New Deal (GND). More than 40 Democratic lawmakers support the GND, a broad plan to tackle climate change and build green jobs. It remains to be seen what role a prolonged shutdown will have on the deal.

Well, good news, the shutdown is over, for at least three weeks. Then they can get back to their mission of using “environmental” concerns (has to be in quotation marks, since ‘climate change’ has little to do with the environment) in order to force through their big government ways, with lots of taxes and fees along with restrictions on citizen’s lives. All while refusing to give up their own use of fossil fuels and make their own lives carbon neutral.

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Bummer: Wyoming Makes It “As Hard” To Get An Abortion As Get A Firearm

By William Teach January 26, 2019 – 7:04 am

The gun grabbers constantly tell us how super easy it is to purchase a firearm. Apparently, they now do not think it’s that easy in Wyoming (via Twitchy)

https://twitter.com/JustEric/status/1088591473828872192

The link in the first tweet shows

A bill restricting women’s access to abortion received initial approval Tuesday from the House Judiciary Committee.

House Bill 140 requires a woman seeking an abortion to first meet with a provider and then wait 48 hours before terminating her pregnancy.

The bill was introduced by Sheridan Representative Richard Tass. He told the committee that unlike a clothing purchase, women can’t change their minds about an abortion. He said the bill gives women time to consider the gravity of the decision.

It still takes longer to get a handgun, but, this highlights the murderous nature of Big Abortion.

Let me ask: if you start thinking about buying a car, does it pop in your head one day and you just get it done? A few people do, and they often live to regret it. I would see them bringing in their car within a month to get out of it. It is typically a multi-day, even week or several weeks long process. When I made the decision, kinda pushed into it due to a leak in the radiator, I looked at what we had, decided on a lease. Then did even deeper research on the same vehicles I sell day in and day out (also knocked Jeep out). I took 4 test drives. Knocked one car out except as a last resort. Had a large spreadsheet. Coworker mentioned a lease special. I can deal with red for 3 years. And actually love it.

But, it wasn’t a quick process. This is a Big Decision. This is a 3 year commitment. Heck, people will take 48 hours to decide which smartphone they want, even if they have an iPhone and are going to get another. An abortion is a big life decision, and one should think hard on it.

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Trump Signs Three Week Continuing Resolution, Vows Either To Get Money Or Do It On His Own

By William Teach January 26, 2019 – 6:47 am

Democrats should think hard about calling this a cave, and running up their refusal to negotiate talking points. If they haven’t been watching Trump since he started running for President, they should know that Trump won’t give up, he won’t stop, he’ll keep pushing, and attacking him on it will make him dig in further and find a way to stick it in their faces

Trump signs bill to end partial government shutdown

President Trump on Friday signed a short-term spending bill to re-open the government, ending the longest partial federal government shutdown in U.S. history. Trump signed the stop-gap spending bill just hours after the measure passed the Senate and House, respectively.

“On Friday, Jan. 25, 2019, the president signed into law: H.J. Res. 28, the ‘Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2019,’ which includes a short-term continuing resolution that provides fiscal year 2019 appropriations through Feb. 15, 2019, for continuing projects and activities of the Federal Government included in the remaining seven appropriations bills,” the White House said in a statement late Friday. “Also included in the enrolled bill are provisions regarding retroactive pay and reimbursement, and extensions of certain authorities.”

Despite an end to the 35-day partial government shutdown, Trump on Friday night felt the need to defend the move, insisting that he had not caved on his sought-after funding for border security.

The deal for a short-term spending bill, which would keep the government open until Feb. 15, was agreed on to help those affected by the partial shutdown, the president said in a tweet.

“I wish people would read or listen to my words on the Border Wall,” Trump tweeted. “This was in no way a concession. It was taking care of millions of people who were getting badly hurt by the Shutdown with the understanding that in 21 days, if no deal is done, it’s off to the races!” (snip)

During his announcement, Trump made reference to his previous threats to declare a national emergency to secure the border, calling it a “very powerful weapon,” and noted that if no deal was reached to fund border security and construction of a wall before Feb. 15, he would use his presidential powers to declare an emergency.

“Walls should not be controversial,” he said. “As commander-in-chief, my highest priority is the defense of our great country.”

In other words, he will either get his money or do something like declare a national emergency. Don’t make the mistake of thinking he doesn’t have a plan.

And part of that plan is exposing Democrats as people who are unserious about securing the border. They’ve all been saying that they would negotiate once government was reopened. Yet

https://twitter.com/esaagar/status/1088900251753345027

We’ll wait and see if something happens over the next three weeks. If Democrats won’t negotiate money for a border barrier, they will surely be shocked at what Team Trump does, you can count on that. And don’t think that Trump won’t find a way to scapegoat Pelosi, Schumer, and the Democrats and get the national media to cover it.

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Fake News: NY Times Writer Solicits Stories On Christian Schools

By William Teach January 25, 2019 – 3:41 pm

As many responded to Dan, when will they solicit stories on public schools?

Also, when will they do it on Muslim schools, which are hotbeds for extremist Islam?

Regardless, Dan tried to respond a few times in claiming he wanted good stories, too.

https://twitter.com/DanielBranon830/status/1088572764896854017

Think any of the good stories will show up? This is essentially a witch hunt due to the Covington affair. If only the same media had spend a 10th of the same time investigating the Obama administration. When they weren’t avoiding, they were surrounding the wagons.

No, it is an attempt to do a hit job on Christian based schools due to far left bias because of one small incident in which kids involved weren’t the ones at fault.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 25, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a world turned to sand from Other People using washers and dryers, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Daley Gator, with a post on the appeal of the feminuts.

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Global Climahypocrites Call For Action On ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach January 25, 2019 – 10:39 am

I never did get around to posting on all the hypocrisy of the global elites gathering in Davos, arriving in their fossil fueled private jets

It was either Dana or Guitar Carver who mentioned this in the comments a few days ago. You also had Al Gore talking about “rain bombs” after taking a long fossil fueled trip, and you know he only flies private. And we get this

Global leaders call for action on climate change

World Bank chief Kristalina Georgieva urged the global elites to take a simple step to understand the urgency of combating climate change: “Get the picture of your children, your grandchildren in front of you.”

Speaking on the last day of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Georgieva warned that the potential “cost in terms of suffering is immeasurable” if the world can’t control a rise in temperatures.

She dismissed the idea that cutting emissions would hurt the economy, citing a study that found a rapid rise in temperatures could slash global economic output by 25 percent.

Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, said: “Rising temperatures will wipe out whole segments of economies.”

The “new climate economy,” by contrast, would create 65 million jobs, Georgieva said.

All you have to ask of these climahypocrites is “what’s in it for them?” Seriously, after a small rise of 1.5 Fahrenheit since 1850, Mankind has grown more during that time than any other period in history. The advances are too many to list. Just imagine what’s happened in the last 30 years. Think deep. Sure seems like we’re doing great, and even if there is a rise of another 1.5F (and there’s no proof it would be mostly/solely caused by Mankind), would the whole economy collapse?

Also strange is that Warmists listen to these global elites. Doesn’t the hard left always tell us they are bad people?

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Bummer: More Americans Believe In Global Warming, Unwilling To Pay More Than $10 A Month For It

By William Teach January 25, 2019 – 7:10 am

Hey, I believe in global warming. I just believe that it is mostly caused by nature. And we’re all probably paying at least $10 a month for it now, via different government fees and taxes, as well as the crappy ethanol mixed in with our gasoline

From the link

Americans increasingly believe climate change is real, that humanity is largely responsible for it and that something needs to be done to fix the problem.

But even as two new surveys confirm the public’s growing awareness of global warming, they also indicate that the issue is still not a front-burner concern and that taxpayers don’t want to pay very much to rein in the greenhouse gases that are at the root of the problem.

Adding to the challenge, the federal government remains unlikely to act, with climate-skeptic Republicans in control of the White House and the Senate.

Still, the director of the survey that has most consistently tracked public opinion on global warming said there is reason for hope in the most recent survey, conducted by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication.

Hope? Sounds rather like a biased survey, a political survey

The survey, conducted last November and December among 1,114 American adults, showed the most dramatic shifts in public sentiment about global warming since Yale and George Mason began sampling opinion on the topic more than a decade ago. It found that 73 percent of Americans now believe global warming is happening, an increase of 10 percentage points from March 2015. And more than six in 10 now accept the scientific consensus that humans are causing the warming that is altering weather and ecosystems. (snip)

But the survey by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research also showed that Americans — despite that knowledge — still do not rate climate change as a front-of-mind issue. Health care, the economy, terrorism, immigration and energy policy were all cited before climate change as concerns in the Associated Press poll, conducted nationwide in November among 1,202 adults. (snip)

But the AP survey also showed that Americans don’t want to pay very much to fight climate change. A $1 per month fee was favored by 57 percent of those surveyed. However, if the monthly charge increased to $10 a month, just 28 percent would be supportive, while 68 percent would be opposed.

Realistically, Warmists would be best off just shutting their mouths about ‘climate change’ and going back to discussing real environmental issues in an rational manner. Who doesn’t want clean air, water, and land? But, they won’t. They also won’t pony up more money from their own pockets.

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White House Willing To Go For Compromise On Shutdown, Democrats A Big “No”

By William Teach January 25, 2019 – 6:54 am

One side is willing to negotiate. The other isn’t. One side thinks MS13 has a spark of divinity, while claiming a wall is immoral.

White House: ‘Large down payment’ on wall could end government shutdown

The White House on Thursday signaled that a “large down payment” on border wall funding — and potentially less than the $5.7 billion that President Trump has long requested — could be sufficient to bring Republicans to the table and end the ongoing partial federal government shutdown.

The possible concession from the White House came just minutes after the Senate rejected both Democratic and GOP proposals to end the shutdown, with both measures falling far short of the 60-vote threshold needed to pass.

But Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi dismissed the proposal shortly afterward as a nonstarter, saying it was “not a reasonable agreement.”

“I don’t know if he knows what he’s talking about,” Pelosi added, referring to Trump.

The White House, in response, slammed Pelosi’s consistent rejections of compromise proposals. The House speaker has previously said she would not support any legislation that includes funding for the wall, which she characterized as an “immorality.”

If Pelosi and so many Dems aren’t willing to negotiate now, why would Trump, his folks, and any elected Republican think they would be willing to talk after the shutdown ends?

“I know some people call her ‘Fancy Nancy’ — these days, I think a better nickname is ‘Dr. No,'” White House adviser Kellyanne Conway told Fox News on Thursday, referring to Pelosi. “Just keep hearing ‘no’ — just ‘no no no’ all the time – you can’t just stomp your feet and say, ‘Harrumph.'”

She’s good at it, though.

“Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Chuck Schumer are meeting now to see whether or not they can work out of the deadlock,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said Thursday evening, after the Senate votes. “As was made clear to Sen. Lindsey Graham, the three-week CR [continuing resolution] would only work if there is a large down payment on the wall.”

Pelosi and company do not know the phrase “good faith.”

“I think we need to find a way to reopen the government,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who hosted the talks, saying, “We just need a commitment by Speaker Pelosi that she will take up a bipartisan bill passed by the Senate if we show there’s a way to the President’s desk.”

Graham issued a statement saying, “The way forward is clear to me: a three-week continuing resolution (CR) that includes a down payment on wall/barrier funding and priorities of Democrats for disaster relief, showing good faith from both sides. I strongly urge my Democratic colleagues to work with the White House on a three-week CR that includes a down payment on wall/barrier funding consistent with DHS priorities.”

Graham said he had met with Trump on Wednesday, mostly about Syria, but the two discussed the shutdown, as well. “He feels like he has moved and they haven’t, so to get a short–term [funding bill], he would need to see some movement on the [Democrats’] part.”

Democrats have rejected deal after deal. Again, why would Trump and the GOP think Dems would even come to the table after the shutdown ends?

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