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Minnesota Introduces World's First Carbon Tariff
hollywoodb writes "The first carbon tax to reduce the greenhouse gases from imports comes not between two nations, but between two states. Minnesota has passed a measure to stop carbon at its border with North Dakota. To encourage the switch to clean, renewable energy, Minnesota plans to add a carbon fee of between $4 and $34 per ton of carbon dioxide emissions to the cost of coal-fired electricity, to begin in 2012 ... Minnesota has been generally pushing for cleaner power within its borders, but the utility companies that operate in MN have, over the past decades, sited a lot of coal power plants on the relatively cheap and open land of North Dakota, which is preparing a legal battle against Minnesota over the tariff."
Greenhouse gases and global warming has been shown to be a hoax, yet these morons are dreaming up more taxes based on a lie. That just goes to show you it has nothing whatever to do with cleaning up the environment, but rather more and ever increasing control over peoples' money and lives.
No, they're taxing the carbon emitted during the production of that energy. Want to avoid the tax? Use solar power. Or maybe hook Glen Beck and a bottle of gin up to a dynamo.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
Even if it was unconstitutional, surely the planet is more important than a bit of paper written by slavers two hundred years ago?