Thread: Sunstein: 'Desirable' to give U.S. wealth to poor nations

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Cass Sunstein wants to spread America's wealth

Echoes Van Jones on using 'environmental justice' to redistribute money

Posted: September 16, 2009
8:25 pm Eastern
By Aaron Klein
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

JERUSALEM – It is "desirable" to redistribute America's wealth to poorer nations, argued President Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein.

According to Sunstein, global climate change is primarily the fault of U.S. environmental behavior and can, therefore, be used as a mechanism to redistribute the country's wealth.

The argument bears striking resemblance to comments made by Obama's former environmental adviser, Van Jones. WND reported Jones used a major environmental convention to argue for spreading America's wealth.

Now WND has learned Sunstein made similar, more extensive arguments.

The Obama czar penned a 2007 University of Chicago Law School paper – obtained and reviewed by WND – in which he debated whether America should pay "justice" to the world by entering into a compensation agreement that would be a net financial loss for the U.S.

Sunstein heavily leans on the side of such an agreement, particularly a worldwide carbon tax that would heavily tariff the U.S.

A prominent theme throughout Sunstein's 39-page paper, entitled "Climate Change Justice," maintains U.S. wealth should be redistributed to poorer nations. He uses terms such as "distributive justice" several times. The paper was written with fellow attorney Eric A. Posner

"It is even possible that desirable redistribution is more likely to occur through climate change policy than otherwise, or to be accomplished more effectively through climate policy than through direct foreign aid," wrote Sunstein.

He posited: "We agree that if the United States does spend a great deal on emissions reductions as part of an international agreement, and if the agreement does give particular help to disadvantaged people, considerations of distributive justice support its action, even if better redistributive mechanisms are imaginable.

"If the United States agrees to participate in a climate change agreement on terms that are not in the nation's interest, but that help the world as a whole, there would be no reason for complaint, certainly if such participation is more helpful to poor nations than conventional foreign-aid alternatives," he wrote.

Sunstein maintains: "If we care about social welfare, we should approve of a situation in which a wealthy nation is willing to engage in a degree of self-sacrifice when the world benefits more than that nation loses."

Sunstein is not the only Obama czar to make such an argument. Jones made similar remarks before he resigned earlier this month after WND exposed he is an admitted radical communist.

Two weeks before Jones started his White House job in March, he delivered the keynote address at Power Shift '09, billed as the largest youth summit on climate change in history. A reported 12,000 young people were at the D.C. Convention Center for the event.

During his speech, available on YouTube, Jones used terms such as "eco-apartheid" and "green for some," and preached about spreading the wealth while positing a call to "change the whole system."

In one section of his 29-minute speech, Jones referenced "our Native American brothers and sisters" who, he claimed, were "pushed," "bullied," "mistreated" and "shoved into all the land that we didn't want."

"Guess what?" Jones continued. "Give them the wealth! Give them then wealth! No justice on stolen land ... we owe them a debt."

"We have to create a green economy, that's true, that's true. But we have to create a green economy that Dr. King would be proud of," Jones exclaimed.

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CASS SUNSTEIN IS A JACKASS as well

The Industrious United States has helped more countries and more people over the decades than ALL THE OTHER COUNTRIES of the world Combined, MANY TIMES OVER. The amount of foreign aid we dispense to these countries is just astronomical. Do we so much as receive a THANK YOU from ANY of these countries?

NOW You want to TAX US MORE for this industrious nature THAT MAKES US ABLE to help all these foreign nations in distress?

NO FREAKIN WAY

NO FREAKIN WAY AT ALL should we be taxed on BOTH ends. IF YOU CUT ALL FOREIGN AID to EVERYONE then a tax on us for our industrious nature MAY be fair...

SOMEONE SMACK this idiot upside the head and remind him of our INCREDIBLY generous nature.

I would like to know where our wealth is? We are so far in the negative it will take years to dig out.

1. Fact: US citizens are already "redistributing" wealth to foreign countries to the tune of $100 Billion every year of high quality private assistance.

2. Fact: Greenhouse gases, if indeed harmful, are caused by many other activities, too. Farm animals contribute a lot of methane and in many countries individual wealth is measured by how big your herd is. Concrete production, such as putting Chinese and Latin Americans in high rises, is another big contributing factor (CO2 is released from lime). Diesel engines, more common overseas than in the US contribute sulfur, nitrous oxide and lung damaging nano particle pollution. The fact of shrinking glaciers in many countries is no evidence of global warming since 90 percent of the world's ice is contained in Antarctica and we don't have an accurate way of measuring it..

3. Fact: Pollution standards are lower in developing countries like China and India and they contribute just as much to pollution as the US.

4. Fact: High tech manufacturing is capable of releasing greenhouse gases that are far more damaging than CO@. NH3, used for producing LCD screens all over the world, is 17,000 X worse than CO2. Other gases are released in other manufacturing processes, including new plants in China, and other developing countries.

As usual this is anti US claptrap designed to put us into guilt.