Politico says environmentalists have backed off from proposing taxes on carbon. The reason? Their news report says: This month’s fuel-tax riots in Paris and the defeat of a carbon-fee ballot measure in Washington state show the difficulty of getting people to support a levy on the energy sources that heat their homes and power their…
Paul Joseph Watson points out that Emmanuel Macron’s carbon tax scheme may have sparked a European Spring. Also, Barack Obama endorsed Macron for President last year and most of Macron’s policies are similar to Obama’s. Here is hoping all of this ends peacefully.
France enacted new taxes on carbon as proposed by French President Emanuel Macron only to see riots riots break out in central Paris following two weeks of protests. The riots resulted in cars and buildings being set ablaze along with the infamous Arc de Triomphe being damaged. The taxes were obviously the last straw for…
Earlier this year, U.S. News ranked California as having the worst quality of life in the country. Tucker Carlson recently interviewed author, Hoover Institution fellow and also a California native Victor Davis Hanson on Fox News about why California went from one of the most powerful, innovative economies in the United States to having the…
During January, scientists at the University of Manchester, England released the results of a study conducted examining the carbon footprint of homemade and pre-packaged sandwiches. Researchers found that producing sandwiches made with pork meat, cheese and prawns resulted in the highest carbon emissions. Worst of all, making so-called all day breakfast sandwiches resulted in carbon…
Despite a budget deficit it is not preventing environmentalists from continuing to seek restrictions on carbon emissions. According to The Northfield News, environmentalist groups in Vermont are pushing for a carbon tax that, in theory, is supposed to tax fossil fuels and, hence, tax polluters would would result in less use of fossil fuels. The…
As if their advocacy of carbon controls and campaigns against fossil fuels aren’t enough, environmentalists attack industry on another front: taxes. According to Royal Dutch Shell, Friends of the Earth teamed up with other groups in order to expose Shell’s use of low tax jurisdictions (such as the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and Bahamas) that the…
