http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2009/08/26/republicans-the-carbon-tax-and-the-2010-election/ Politics and policy from inside Washington Sun, 07 Apr 2013 21:23:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2009/08/26/republicans-the-carbon-tax-and-the-2010-election/comment-page-1/#comment-1904 CTF Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:40:25 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/?p=1657#comment-1904 The Republican economist is right: a revenue-neutral carbon tax could and should be supported by a preponderance of Republicans. It's a shame, really, that many seem to choose political expediency over good public policy. The Republican economist is right: a revenue-neutral carbon tax could and should be supported by a preponderance of Republicans. It’s a shame, really, that many seem to choose political expediency over good public policy.

]]> http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2009/08/26/republicans-the-carbon-tax-and-the-2010-election/comment-page-1/#comment-1882 James Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:27:21 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/?p=1657#comment-1882 "climate change", and the suggestion that man has any significant role in the cyclical warming and cooling of the earth's atmosphere, truly is "a game", and those wanting to play have a financial motive/agenda for pushing their unscientific posturing. Why would any rational person, GOP or otherwise, choose to join such a game? “climate change”, and the suggestion that man has any significant role in the cyclical warming and cooling of the earth’s atmosphere, truly is “a game”, and those wanting to play have a financial motive/agenda for pushing their unscientific posturing. Why would any rational person, GOP or otherwise, choose to join such a game?

]]> http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2009/08/26/republicans-the-carbon-tax-and-the-2010-election/comment-page-1/#comment-1863 Trouble Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:26:00 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/?p=1657#comment-1863 <i>But as one Republican economist told me recently, GOPers need to get into the game on climate change. </i>Why, pray tell, does the GOP need to 'get into the game' on an issue that is the most mammoth scientific fraud since the Piltdown Man, and the most mammoth economic fraud since socialism itself?Cold fusion, anyone? But as one Republican economist told me recently, GOPers need to get into the game on climate change. Why, pray tell, does the GOP need to ‘get into the game’ on an issue that is the most mammoth scientific fraud since the Piltdown Man, and the most mammoth economic fraud since socialism itself?Cold fusion, anyone?

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