Koch brothers hire lobbyists to fight carbon tax, save poor and old people
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Charles and David Koch really, really dont want a carbon tax.
Carbon-tax proposals are going nowhere in Congress, but the Koch brothers arent taking any chances.
A few non-office-holding Republicans and a few actual-office-holding Democrats are calling for a carbon tax, but the current Congress would never pass one, and even the Obama administration has said it doesnt want one.
Still, a grandstanding Republican representative, Steve Scalise of Louisiana, is pushing a House resolution declaring that a carbon tax would be detrimental to the United States economy and to American families and businesses, and that it would fall hardest on the poor, the elderly, and those on fixed incomes. (Never mind that many carbon-tax proposals are designed specifically to ease burdens on low-income Americans. Facts are not of interest here.)
The billionaire oil-mogul Koch brothers whove convinced many politicians to sign a No Climate Tax Pledge have now hired a gang of lobbyists to push Scalises pointless resolution, The Hill reports.