Thread: Los Angeles Considers Global Warming Tax!!!!!!

A city council full of MADMEN and ILLEGALS!!! This is WORSE than the corruption of Mexico!!!!
Los Angeles considers global warming tax

April 7, 2008 - 9:58AM
The Orange County Register

To fight global warming, a bill in Sacramento would enable Los Angeles County transit officials to increase taxes on motorists. It's a bad idea that may foreshadow even worse to come.

Billed as a "climate change mitigation and adaptation fee," the measure would cost motorists either an additional 3 percent motor fuel tax, or up to a $90 annual flat fee, based on vehicle emissions. The new charges would be on top of taxes already paid at the pump. Either option requires a majority approval by a vote of the people.

"At this point the people of the Los Angeles region have just had it when it comes to traffic and air quality," claimed Assemblyman Mike Feuer, a Los Angeles Democrat and author of Assembly Bill 2558.

We concur about the traffic mess, but with little else Mr. Feuer claims in seeking to overtax motorists. The assemblyman's sleight of hand conflates two issues, the real problem of congested traffic and the contrived emergency of so-called global warming.

Congested traffic is easily verifiable. If it went away tomorrow, politicians would be unable to persuade voters to tax themselves to fix it.

Global warming at best amounts to less than a degree of temperature increase during the past century. If the recent several-year cooling trend is an indication, global warming may be going away. But because the only "proof" of long-term catastrophic consequences lies in contrived computer models, politicians like Mr. Feuer can insist even as temperatures decline that doomsday still lies ahead unless people tax themselves to fix the problem.

Los Angeles County motorists should ask Mr. Feuer what global temperature would persuade him that a new tax is unneeded. Global warming, now conveniently rechristened "climate change," is perfect for demagoguery. Those advancing the cause won't explain how they will know we have won the global warming fight, let alone what the ideal temperature is supposed to be.

Climate has changed as long as the Earth has spun on its axis. It's been considerably warmer in recent centuries than today, and during those periods humanity simply adapted, indeed, flourished with fewer cold-weather deaths and more abundant crops.

But facts don't deter schemes like Mr. Feuer's to raise $400 million in additional taxes to pay for already funded transit projects. The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority would have to place the issue on the ballot if AB2558 becomes law, and probably would do so because the agency would reap the bounty.

We hope, however, that motorists see the ploy for what it is and reject the additional tax. If not, it's a good bet this scare tactic will be repeated throughout the state


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WHAT? Oh yeah, that's right, more of the taxpayer's money to use somehow towards their precious illegals... Globel warming, BS!

I just sent this one to Glenn Beck. He is just livid over this Global warming stuff and how it is set up to fleece the American consumer.

Get rid of the illegal aliens and you get rid of over a million old pickups and old suvs in LA no need for a new tax

I will not even mention the real cause of global warming

ya I will it's Hot Air from City Hall

Originally Posted by jimpasz

Get rid of the illegal aliens and you get rid of over a million old pickups and old suvs in LA no need for a new tax

I will not even mention the real cause of global warming

ya I will it's Hot Air from City Hall

Not to mention all the carbon dioxide they are breathing out and OH how about those street vendors.

Perhaps the city councilmen are scared that they themselvses could end up as the main course at a 'canibals' bar-b-que. (just a little Ted Turner humor, sorry, I could not resist. )

Global cooling, Global warming, and Global climate change = $Trillions! This agenda must be pushed forward at a quickening pace before the next coming ice age starts.

Carbon credits = corporate fascism. In the future will it become harder to start a small business due to the added expense of the carbon credits that will have to be purchased before or during expansion of said business? Who will pay the price? = YOU, the consumer! Like sheep led to...........?

The low on the totem pole greenies need to read and get informed before you find yourselves invited to a bar-b-que!

Paleoclimatology during the Pleistocene would be good place to start.

For humor one might want to read a paper by Paul S. Martin, Prehistoric Overkill: The Global Model. Martin proposes that paleo-indians ate all of the mammoths in North America within a very short period of time. Talk about feasting, those paleo-indians must have thrown some big parties! Point being, mankind has always been responsible for EVERYTHING negative, including the Pleistocene extinctions that occured 10 to 20 thousand years ago! Way before guns or automobiles, or communists!

All that and trillions in the coffers of GE.

Freon, methane (from bovines farting and belching, our cattle industry), now carbon dioxide. Where to next?

Well if enough people were to quit breating oxygen and biologically converting said oxygen into carbon dioxide then perhaps Gia would stand a chance from the onslaught of those pesky little humans! Ofcourse this would decrease the amount of carbon dioxide needed by plants in order for them to flourish. (not really, jk, but one fiction deserves another.) On another slanted approach , perhaps more cabon dioxide would help to stop the desertification that is occuring in various spots on our Gia mothership! Plants take in carbon dioxide and respire oxygen, thus a greener Gia. This is starting to get circular, now I am really dizzy!