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Tag Archives: Carbon Tax

Clean Heat Standard is a ‘convoluted’ carbon tax

Sen. Dick McCormack, D-Windsor, suggested that the committee consider scrapping the whole thing and simply enacting a carbon tax on fossil heating fuels and use the money to fund programs that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

February 16, 2023 in TNR News.
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Roper: Gov. Scott says we can’t afford the heating fuels we’re about to tax

It’s hard for a state government to argue for taxpayer money to subsidize the high cost of something they’re simultaneously trying to price consumers out of the market.

September 28, 2022 in Commentary.
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John Klar: Regressive carbon taxes — Part 2

Imagine taxing all vegetables but not beef, then giving the receipts to rich people to buy hamburgers and steaks, who could then eat more meat and fewer vegetables, becoming richer and fatter.

August 31, 2022 in Commentary.

John Klar: Regressive carbon taxes

Vermont’s so-called progressives have implemented an array of tax, electric rate, and regulatory burdens on low-income Vermonters and small businesses that benefit wealthy nonresidents and mega-corporations.

August 24, 2022 in Commentary.
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Roper: Climate Council discusses ‘all economy’ carbon tax

Implementing an “economy wide” “cap and invest” program is the latest curlicue fluorescent lightbulb to go off over the heads of the 23 zealots charged with totally restructuring our economy around greenhouse gas reduction.

August 22, 2022 in Commentary.
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Watch every Democrat in the recent Lt. Gov. debate voice support for a carbon tax on home heating

Watch every Democrat candidate in the recent lieutenant governor debate voice their support for a carbon tax on home heating oil, propane, natural gas, and kerosene — and throw gasoline and diesel into the mix.

May 23, 2022 in Videos.
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McClaughry: Heating fuel tax dead — for now

Scott indicated that when the clean heat standard policy, costs and impacts are more fully worked out, a “revised” CHS might yet win his support. That was not encouraging news to the fuel dealers and their customers who will pay the CHS bill.

May 16, 2022 in Commentary.

McClaughry: Here comes another carbon tax

Are you ready for the coming carbon tax on your home and business heating bill? The Vermont House is working at flank speed to enact the “Clean Heat Standard” (CHS) concocted by the Climate Action Network, and adopted by the Vermont Climate Council.

February 7, 2022 in Commentary.
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McClaughry: Swiss vote ‘no carbon tax’ in national referendum

In what is believed to be the first time a carbon tax has been put to a national vote, upscale urban regions including Geneva, Basel and Zurich voted in favor of the CO2 law, but 51.6 percent of voters, and 21 of the country’s 26 cantons, said “get out of here with your carbon tax.”

June 30, 2021 in Commentary.
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McClaughry: The ‘thermal energy efficiency’ tax is coming

After the push for the carbon tax fizzled out in 2018, the climate change game turned to enacting a carbon tax by disguising it as something else. The latest version is called “the Thermal Energy Efficiency Charge,” and Sen. Chris Bray has become its most ardent promoter.

March 8, 2021 in Commentary.
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‘Own it and come out swinging’ on new carbon tax, senator suggests

The proposed “Enhanced Energy Savings Act” is a carbon tax, and maybe the Senate should “own it and come out swinging,” one senator told his fellow Natural Resources and Energy Committee members yesterday.

February 26, 2021 in TNR News.

Scott administration still working on $90 million TCI carbon tax

TCI was a bad idea before the COVID-19 recession. Today it is absolutely unthinkable.

April 16, 2020 in Commentary.

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