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March 29, 2021

America Can’t Afford a Carbon Tax

America can’t afford a carbon tax that would increase the cost of energy and an be yet another intrusion of the government in our lives.

Earlier this month, Freedom Foundation President and CEO Annette Meeks joined a group of conservative voices expressing their opposition to any carbon tax. To see signers of the letter, click here.

A couple of years ago,  when Democrats were pushing the carbon tax, the Washington Times published an op-ed that laid out why a carbon tax wouldn’t work. The author of the commentary was correct then, and correct now.

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WHY A CARBON TAX DOES NOT WORK

Washington Times

Energy is the lifeblood of any economy. A carbon tax would increase energy prices and thus cost jobs, making it difficult for U.S. companies to compete with foreign rivals and punishing the poor. Aside from these vital facts, neither federal nor state governments should impose a carbon tax because they would be utterly ineffective.

This was made abundantly clear by former Secretary of State John Kerry, who said in a December 2015 speech to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, “If we somehow eliminated all of our domestic greenhouse-gas emissions, guess what — that still wouldn’t be enough to offset the carbon pollution coming from the rest of the world.”

This was made abundantly clear by former Secretary of State John Kerry, who said in a December 2015 speech to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, “If we somehow eliminated all of our domestic greenhouse-gas emissions, guess what — that still wouldn’t be enough to offset the carbon pollution coming from the rest of the world.”…

There is no good time to enact bad policy, and carbon taxes are undoubtedly that. No carbon tax, state or federal, will prevent any measurable amount of temperature or sea level rise, or reduce the likelihood of hurricanes forming or wildfires from occurring. These schemes are virtue signaling, akin to forcing people to wear a hair-shirt to atone for their carbon sins.

 

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