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2019-08-21 Home Front: Politix
Mitt Romney Wants a Carbon Tax, Says Climate Change is Happening – Insists He Will Work for Those ‘Left Behind' Like Coal Miners
[KUTV via Gateway Pundit] U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney said Monday that he believes climate change is happening and human activity is a significant contributor.

During a speech at the conservative Sutherland Institute in Salt Lake City, the senator acknowledged that the position is rare among his fellow Republicans, but one that younger people seem to respond to more strongly than older conservatives.

"In some respects, (by speaking with newer conservatives), I’ll be able to make inroads with some of the young people coming along," he said...

...The U.S. should instead provide incentivizes for entrepreneurs to develop cleaner energy sources while also helping people who work in industries that could be left behind, such as coal mining, he added.

"I’m not willing to sit by if there are major sectors that are losers ... and watch people and communities suffer because of that change," he said.

Romney discussed the benefits of a carbon tax, a fee based on each ton of carbon dioxide emissions produced by fossil fuels that some major oil companies have adopted.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-08-21 01:21|| || Front Page|| [19 views ]  Top

#1 Mormons recently embraced the global warming message and many ray they are not going to have children to stop global warming. I heard a Christian preacher say the Mormons are a cult and in time you will see why. How prophetic.
Posted by Varmint Splat1454 2019-08-21 03:59||   2019-08-21 03:59|| Front Page Top

#2 You can see the strings being dangled
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-08-21 05:50||   2019-08-21 05:50|| Front Page Top

#3 "Because I once ran for prexident and lost I have a right (in my own mind) to make policy." We need an exile or euthanasia policy for losing candidates. It would focus everyone's attention.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-08-21 08:04||   2019-08-21 08:04|| Front Page Top

#4 ...Brutus is an honourable man.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-08-21 08:10||   2019-08-21 08:10|| Front Page Top

#5 Umm, could someone tell me the time when "Climate Change" wasn't happening?
Posted by AlanC 2019-08-21 08:29||   2019-08-21 08:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Climate Change will always happen whether humans want it too or not.

I just don't believe human actives contribute all that much to it.
Posted by DarthVader 2019-08-21 08:36||   2019-08-21 08:36|| Front Page Top

#7 'Airstip One' must have a common enemy. Climate Change is that enemy.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-08-21 08:42||   2019-08-21 08:42|| Front Page Top

#8 When churches declare that their flock needs a second religion you know the game is up. I actually have additional respect for Jehova's Witnesses now until they also buy in...
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-08-21 08:45||   2019-08-21 08:45|| Front Page Top

#9 I left the Lutheran Church because they are up to 5 or six religions now: LGTQWXYZ, Climate Change, BLM, Latin American Refugees, Syrian Refugees...
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-08-21 08:48||   2019-08-21 08:48|| Front Page Top

#10 The Lutherans brought us the Minnesota Somalis, the lovers of assimilation.
Posted by Jack Salami  2019-08-21 09:32||   2019-08-21 09:32|| Front Page Top

#11 Mitt has always believed this. It's one of the many, many reasons why he was such a terrible choice to run for President, at least for Republicans.
Posted by Iblis 2019-08-21 10:51||   2019-08-21 10:51|| Front Page Top

#12 I'll believe climate change is a problem when the people saying it is a problem start acting like it is a problem.
Posted by Glenmore 2019-08-21 11:21||   2019-08-21 11:21|| Front Page Top

#13 Jack, I thought it was the Clinton - Gore administration? Good to see you G.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2019-08-21 12:09||   2019-08-21 12:09|| Front Page Top

#14 The difference between religion and cult is solely one of scale. A religion is a cult that has gotten really big.
Posted by Vernal Hatrick 2019-08-21 12:15||   2019-08-21 12:15|| Front Page Top

#15 Islam, Catholicism, Mormons, Climate Change, Socialism... there are differences in the details, but none of them encourage people to think for themselves or live independently of Cult Leadership.
Posted by Vernal Hatrick 2019-08-21 12:17||   2019-08-21 12:17|| Front Page Top

#16 True. Man-made, panic fueled, existential traps for fools and their families.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-08-21 12:22||   2019-08-21 12:22|| Front Page Top

#17 "We need an exile ... policy for losing candidates." M. Murcek
Yes, Yes, Yes! But where?
Posted by ruprecht 2019-08-21 13:14||   2019-08-21 13:14|| Front Page Top

#18 But where?
Let's buy Greenland!
Posted by Glenmore 2019-08-21 14:09||   2019-08-21 14:09|| Front Page Top

#19 Greenland is too nice for that. Send em to gitmo, on the way let the Lieutenant on the C-130 tell em "You know, you'll never get to leave there. The medic can fix you up or you can take your chances with that parachute pack over there..."
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-08-21 14:26||   2019-08-21 14:26|| Front Page Top

#20 Do we need to test passenger seats on new spacecraft? I can't think of anybody more expendable.
Posted by Vernal Hatrick 2019-08-21 15:48||   2019-08-21 15:48|| Front Page Top

#21 But where?
IIRC, the Byzantines had a quaint custom for inconvenient political opponents: a new lifestyle as a Solitary Monk on a small island. Just imagine, you have a restful life tending a small vegetable patch, several goats or a chicken or two, far away from civilization where you can study Holy Books™.
Posted by magpie 2019-08-21 16:16||   2019-08-21 16:16|| Front Page Top

#22 Magpie, the Byzantines would accompany exile with some disqualifying disfigurement. Castration was a popular one, as it also eliminated the odds of heirs popping up later, but the usual was removing the nose. Mangled people were clearly not favored by God, and thus unsuitable to be the Emperor of Rome.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2019-08-21 23:35||   2019-08-21 23:35|| Front Page Top

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