BEWARE OF "NEW GREEN DEALS", it's a carbon tax.

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As they assume control of the House, Democrats are pushing a carbon tax as part of a “Green New Deal.” A carbon tax means new hard power for the federal government. It means more taxpayer money flowing to Washington. It means everything will cost more.

This will turn off voters, and that’s why Democrats will pull out all the stops to get Republican fingerprints on a carbon tax in 2019. Democrats will work with a compliant media to kick up a dust cloud labeled “bipartisanship” in the hopes voters won’t know who to blame.

All Republicans should steer clear.

A carbon tax is both bad policy and bad politics. As a simultaneous tax and spending hike, carbon taxes raise the cost of living and hit lower-income workers and small businesses hard. They give the government more control over private decisions.




It’s no wonder all but six House Republicans voted for a resolution noting a carbon tax is detrimental to the U.S. economy. Only seven Democrats supported the resolution.

There is a clear contrast between the two parties, and voters favor the Republican position.

The sprawling carbon-tax-industrial-complex of left-wing “green” groups, complete with highly compensated marquee lobbyists with an “R” after their name (Trent Lott) will, therefore, come knocking on certain gullible Republican doors in January.

The groups will promise things: glowing press coverage, support in the next campaign, happy constituents waving carbon tax “dividend” checks, adulation from the establishment as a deep thinker, invitations to Aspen.



Outside D.C.’s walled garden, the two-in-one combined potency of an energy issue with a tax issue has produced a consistent rejection of carbon taxes by voters, even in blue states.

Voters oppose carbon taxes and the politicians who push them year after year.

In 2016, true blue Washington state voters overwhelmingly voted down a carbon tax ballot measure. In 2018, carbon tax organizers thought they were clever rebranding it as a “carbon fee” but voters rejected it once again.

In Bernie Sanders territory, blue Vermont voters in 2016 elected anti-carbon tax Republican Phil Scott as Governor instead of pro-carbon tax Democrat Sue Minter. In 2010, Republican primary voters kicked carbon tax-supporting congressman Bob Inglis out of office, choosing Trey Gowdy as his replacement.

This year Florida Republican Carlos Curbelo introduced a carbon tax bill at a much-hyped event at the National Press Club. The bill is a large tax hike which gives broad new power to federal bureaucrats. It would increase household costs and harm economic growth.

While sitting in a comfortable chair on stage, Curbelo even acknowledged the bill would cause some people to lose their jobs. He said, “We have a fund in place to help those individuals get retrained and find other work.” Who doesn’t love being retrained?

Curbelo promised that if re-elected he would travel the country touting his carbon tax plan. He received predictable praise from the beltway press. Just as predictably, “green” members of the carbon tax-industrial complex attacked him in the election for his “failure to be a true climate champion.” Curbelo lost while Florida Republicans won tough races for the governorship and U.S. Senate.