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Los Angeles considers global
warming tax
The
Orange County Register
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
To fight global warming, a bill in Sacramento would enable Los
Angeles County transit officials to increase taxes on motorists.
It's a bad idea that may foreshadow even worse to come.
Billed as a "climate change mitigation and adaptation fee,"
the measure would cost motorists either an additional 3 percent
motor fuel tax, or up to a $90 annual flat fee, based on vehicle
emissions. The new charges would be on top of taxes already paid
at the pump. Either option requires a majority approval by a vote
of the people.
"At this point the people of the Los Angeles region have
just had it when it comes to traffic and air quality," claimed
Assemblyman Mike Feuer, a Los Angeles Democrat and author of Assembly
Bill 2558.
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We concur about the traffic mess, but with little else Mr. Feuer
claims in seeking to overtax motorists. The assemblyman's sleight
of hand conflates two issues, the real problem of congested traffic
and the contrived emergency of so-called global warming.
Congested traffic is easily verifiable. If it went away tomorrow,
politicians would be unable to persuade voters to tax themselves
to fix it.
Global warming at best amounts to less than a degree of temperature
increase during the past century. If the recent several-year cooling
trend is an indication, global warming may be going away. But
because the only "proof" of long-term catastrophic consequences
lies in contrived computer models, politicians like Mr. Feuer
can insist even as temperatures decline that doomsday still lies
ahead unless people tax themselves to fix the problem.
Los Angeles County motorists should ask Mr. Feuer what global
temperature would persuade him that a new tax is unneeded. Global
warming, now conveniently rechristened "climate change,"
is perfect for demagoguery. Those advancing the cause won't explain
how they will know we have won the global warming fight, let alone
what the ideal temperature is supposed to be.
Full
article here.
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INFOWARS:
BECAUSE THERE'S A WAR ON FOR YOUR MIND
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