So CUTE! 6 Whole GOP Reps Vote Against Anti-Carbon Tax Resolution; Next Week - DOA Carbon Tax Bill!
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A decade of inaction by the U.S. Republican Party on climate legislation will end next week when one its own offers a carbon tax bill, which is sure to fail in the House of Representatives, but is notable for winning even a little Republican support.
Representative Carlos Curbelo of Florida, a member of the House tax committee, said he will unveil the bill on Monday. The measure was expected to propose replacing the federal gasoline tax with a tax on businesses calculated by how much oil, coal and other fossil fuels they buy. “When paired w/ regulation changes, infrastructure investment & the repeal of regressive taxes — like I’ll be proposing Monday — it can protect our environment & protect economic growth,” Curbelo said of his proposal on Twitter.
The Curbelo legislation marks a small but meaningful shift (Ed. - sic) for his party on climate politics, driven in part by candidates in swing states where increasing hurricanes and floods make no distinction between Republicans and Democrats.
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House Republicans on Thursday easily approved a measure expressing the sense of the Congress that “a carbon tax would be detrimental to the United States economy.” But six Republicans, including Curbelo, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Mia Love of Utah, and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, also of Florida, voted against the measure. No Republicans voted against a similar measure in 2016.
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Ed. - At this rate, a similar proposal will have over 100 GOP votes by . . . 2050.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tax-carbon/bill-shows-chink-in-u-s-republicans-climate-armor-idUSKBN1K92SW