From Goverment Accountability & Oversight
Biden Cabinet Nominee Open to New Taxes to Pay for “Climate Agenda” — as Gov., Sued Energy Cos. to Obtain “Sustainable Funding Stream” Because Legislature Refused
GAO and ClimateLitigationWatch readers are familiar with the effort by the State of Rhode Island to sue energy companies in state court for causing climate change, hoping to cash in after the administration concluded that the State’s “Assembly [had] very conservative leadership — don’t care about env’t”, leaving the Governor “looking for sustainable funding stream”.
So it should be no surprise that at her confirmation hearing to serve as Pres. Biden’s Secretary of Commerce Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo continued the line that the “climate” agenda spending ambitions cost a lot of money, “We need funds”, and someone’s just going to have to suck it up and hand over their money to pay for them.
“We need funds”. — Commerce Sec. Nominee Gina Raimondo
According to two contemporaneous sets of notes from a meeting at (natch) the Rockefeller mansion — one set handwritten by a Rocky Mountain Institute aide, another by a rep from Tom Steyer’s energy Foundation — Raimondo’s own Cabinet aide, Department of Environmental Management chief Janet Coit, laid out that that meant suing “in state court” for “priority — sustainable funding stream”.
So dig deep, they’ve got a spending agenda. And you’re just the folks to pay for it.
Your money and property are not your own. It’s an illusion in between edicts of the more powerful.
Everyone should carefully watch where the revenue from these taxes goes. In Canada, it didn’t take long for several provincial governments to start diverting the money away from what were supposed to be climate initiatives to prop up other areas in order to keep the electorate happy. Meanwhile if there were any emissions reductions, they were well-kept secrets.
There is no need for a climate agenda. The burning of wood by a Danish power plant has solved the climate problem for now and for all time for the entire World. Add to that, that New Zealand is planning to bread a larger cattle will certainly solve the Earth’s climate problems should such climate problems exist. It is all ready a done deal. No funds from us are required to support it.
Let’s see….
The “evil” top 1% pay almost 39% of all income taxes, the top 10% pay 70%, the top 25% pay 86%, the top 50% pay 97%, and the bottom 50% pay… 3%….
I’m sorry, who isn’t paying their “fair share”, again?
Elizabeth Warren wants a new “2 cent” wealth tax, so people with say $100 million in assets (acquired from after-tax purchases) would pay an additional $2 million/year, on top of the $millions/year paid in: income, property, sales, state, local and capital gain taxes…
“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”― Benjamin Franklin
We’re now at that stage, folks…
I suggest you start the funding with wealth taxes on Tom Steyer, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and all those other tech billionaires that thought it was a good idea to put these bozos in charge and used their technology companies to help make sure of the Biden win. They will surely be in favour of this, after all it is part of the progressive agenda.
Here is a tweet from the Netherlands exposing the political hypocrisy:
John Kerry as Climate Pope? Only Democrats can choose a guy with 6 houses, 12 cars, 2 yachts and a private jet (to) tell you that YOU have to take the bus to combat CO2 emissions.
Rhode Island should get in line behind all the other cities and states that have unsuccessfully tried to do this.