Of course today is April Fools Day, and all sorts of shenanigans are about. This is why I ran my Friday Funny yesterday, because I didn’t want it taken for a prank. With Carbon Tax proponents, it’s just another day of pulling the wool over your eyes. Today, an outfit called “Carbon Pulse” created a fake news story saying Donald Trump wants to pass a carbon tax to pay for a wall on the Mexican border.
A nationwide carbon tax could raise enough revenues to fund the construction of a wall between the US and Mexico, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump announced Friday morning in a surprise policy U-turn on the climate change issue.
Yeah right, it doesn’t pass the smell test.
Here’s a screencap of the article.
A couple of outlets picked it up, and there’s been some Twitterring about it.
If they’d bother to read the last line of the PR story, they’d notice:
Some more details on Trump’s and Cruz’s proposals can be found by spelling out the two words formed using the first letter of every paragraph in this story.
That of course spells “April Fools”.
Of course, there’s a far easier way than a tax, just sell carbon credits to the gullible:
All your need is a printer, some certificate paper, and this website.
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The fact that many green organizations, some funded by the ultra-left-wing Rockefeller foundation, have said that the revenue from a carbon tax could be used to pay down the national debt and/or to add funding for social programs, I wouldn’t put it past our government to try and sell us a carbon tax to pay for a wall some day in the future.
The bigger issue with a carbon tax is that the government would get so much revenue that there wouldn’t be a need to raise rates on the rich.
Why is it a bigger issue? Because a carbon tax is an excellent way for the rich to keep their wealth. In fact, many rich people want a carbon tax. But what they really want is for the middle class to pay for the debt and government social programs so they can keep more of their wealth.
I used to be of the mindset that they should be taxed at the same rate as everybody else (flat tax). Now I want to stick it to them royally, especially since the DNC is now the party of the rich and that many left-wingers are rich.
I see the climate change April Fools jokers are getting around early this year-
http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/28/global-warming-guru-blames-deniers-for-legal-troubles/
When it’s worse than they thought seems it’s best they get in early and beat the rush.
Who were the Trump followers that were “Snared”? I missed the names when I read this story.
You saw this one ? about the effects of dogmatic greens in Germany and Japan shutting nuclear
It is much more urgent to raise a wall so high around China, that no carbon pollution should exit the country. And, of course, have the CPC pay for it.
Who’s to argue ?
Last one, I promise.