[MCN] Carbon tax, or Green New Deal ? Why choose? We had better learn to chew gum and ride a bike at the same time

[Lance Olsen]

Excerpt: Authors behind the IMF report argue that activists need not choose between a carbon tax and a Green New Deal-type spending program: a carbon tax can — at least in part — help defray the cost of a Green New Deal. It’s an idea that has caught on in some policy circles, even if it hasn’t risen to the forefront of the climate policy discussion. TIME reported <https://time.com/5613542/green-new-deal-carbon-tax/> in July that dozens of members of Congress who support Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal resolution also back a carbon tax.
Democratic Rep. Salud Carbajal of California, who supports both the Green New Deal and a carbon tax, echoed the need for action of any kind. “I’m for anything and everything,” he told TIME in July, “that moves the ball forward.”

The report also addresses some of the common critiques leveled against a carbon tax, including that the policy would hit the poor hardest. The report authors emphasize the wide range of potential uses for revenue derived from a carbon tax, from potential tax breaks for low-income people to helping communities whose livelihoods will be damaged by the transition away from fossil fuels.

What’s clear is that the consequences of inaction will be severe.

https://time.com/5697219/climate-change-imf-carbon-tax/ <https://time.com/5697219/climate-change-imf-carbon-tax/>
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“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."

Attributed to Benito Mussolini
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"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism -- ownership of government by an individual, by a group." 
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Fascisti. n.plural. A body of Italian nationalists, organized March 1919, to oppose Bolshevism in Italy. Under the leadership of Benito Mussolini, it assumed control of the government in October 1922. Fascism. n. The policy and practices of the fascisti. The doctrine imposes centralized authority, national registration, paternalism for industry and commerce, and press censorship; it opposes feminism, parliamentary government and democratic institutions.
Fascist. n. One of the fascisti.

Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary of the English Language. 1938



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