Carbon Taxes Set to Become Real Taxes

I have long warned that carbon “taxes” (which at first were but carbon credit programs against industry to allow the Church of Global Warming to swindle their way into the pie) were designed to stifle free trade and industry, in order to impose control and steal money.

Well, the first of the real taxes is being unveiled in Washington state.

A cadre of six Democrats in the state senate are trying to push through Senate Bill 6923, which is designed to give the state of Washington more money for alternative transportation, by adding a greenhouse gas tax to automotive registrations. It’s a scaling system, based on the Environmental Protection Agency’s estimates of the mileage your vehicle gets. 15 MPG or lower, $200-$240 extra every year. 15-25 MPG, $100-$180 extra every year. Over 26 MPG, $40-$100 extra, every year.

This is just the first in what I predict will become a national trend. Tax-and-spend liberals cannot pass up a good mythological disaster in order to increase the government coffers further. There is no environmental motive to this. The only motive is further control and monetary gain through fear peddling.

The Republicans have their War on Terrorism as the fear mongering tool of choice. The Democrats have Global Warming. Neither camp is trying to fix anything. Both are in the game for personal benefit only, by preaching global doom and gloom.

Just remember this: all laws are enforced at the muzzle of a gun. When politicians start imposing laws based on dubious science, they are doing so by imposing force against the People. With the latest lunacy the Neocons have unleashed on us with the TSA, Homeland Security and related nonsense, in an ever increasing paramilitary police state, do you want this force used against you over a still actively debated conundrum over CO²?

These trends start with licensing fees and end up in criminal code. The entire War on Drugs is currently fought over criminal code governing the sales of substances without a proper tax stamp. (Yes, you read that right.) What starts as a licensing fee, must be backed up with force if someone refuses to pay the fee. A single fee, never remains alone - more are added, more laws and more taxes - each must be backed up by force. Everything snowballs from the first act of resistance

When poorly formed scientific arguments are used to urge political action, it’s bad enough. When they are used to imprison people, or even kill them - which is the eventual course of all law as the regulators continue to try to “fix” things - we have reached rock bottom.