There is nothing anti-China about a tax that will be paid for by American families. But we've been down this road before. The American people won't be fooled.
Daily Caller (1/21/24) op-ed: "Last Thursday, the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works reported legislation (the Prove It Act) that sets the stage and lays the foundation to impose a carbon dioxide tax on American families, workers, and consumers. This new energy tax was voted out of committee 14-5, with four Republicans — Senator Kevin Cramer (from North Dakota, an energy producing state), Senator John Boozman (Arkansas), Senator Graham (South Carolina), and, most inexplicably, Senator Cynthia Lummis (from Wyoming, another state that produces energy) — joining ten Democrats to create this new tax...The legislation sponsors, which include Senator Cramer, have tried to disguise the actual intention of the legislation — which is to increase the price of energy and everything grown, made, or transported with energy in an attempt to address global warming — with propaganda about being tough on our trade competitors, including China...Last month, our friends at the American Energy Alliance, in a survey conducted by MWR Strategies — of which this columnist is president — asked 1,600 likely voters in eight swing States how much they would be willing to pay to address climate change. The median response was just $10 a year. More than a third of the respondents — including 17% of Democrats — said that they were unwilling to pay anything at all to address climate change. When we asked about this particular tax, voters opposed it by almost a 2-1 margin. This new carbon dioxide tax is intensely unpopular; that’s why its sponsors have shrouded it in a verbal smokescreen about communist China."
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"The hard reality is that the Biden Administration’s EV mandates are bad for U.S. energy security and national security. The mandates are unrealistic and unattainable. They will give China control over critical supply chains and increase costs for consumers and taxpayers. The EPA’s EV mandates should be scrapped."
– Robert Bryce, Substack
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