Vice President Kamala Harris endorsed carbon taxes the last time she ran for president in the 2020 election cycle, but her campaign ignored multiple Daily Caller News Foundation requests to clarify whether she still supports them. [emphasis, links added]
During a 2019 town hall hosted by CNN, Harris explicitly endorsed carbon taxes, adding that any additional costs being passed on to consumers “should never be the reason” not to impose them.
The DCNF reached out to the Harris campaign several times over four days to inquire about whether Harris still supports carbon taxes as she did in the 2020 cycle, but the campaign did not respond to any of those inquiries.
A carbon tax is a government-imposed fee on carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions that is designed to incentivize emission reductions, according to the Tax Policy Center.
Proponents of carbon taxes often characterize them as a market-friendly mechanism to help cut emissions across the American economy while generating tax revenue, but opponents say that carbon taxes will only drive up costs for businesses and consumers while doing little to reduce emissions.
“So you have said in your new plan which, you released today, you talked about a climate pollution fee. And just to try to understand what that is, that’s going to go on big companies, they’re going to pay this fee,” CNN’s Erin Burnett, who moderated the town hall event, said to Harris. “But how do you make sure that they don’t do what they will try to do, which is immediately pass that on to consumers?”
“Well, one, we’re going to do it in a way that is about what we’ve always done with industry, which is to say that there has to be some connection between the fee and bad behaviors, and there has to be — and that we have to monitor whether it’s going to be passed on to consumers,” Harris said in response.
“But I’m going to tell you, that should never be the reason not to actually put a fee — in particular, a carbon fee.”
Ahead of the CNN event, Harris’ 2020 campaign released a comprehensive climate change plan that included a “progressively increasing fee” on carbon emissions, according to Politico, which also described Harris as one of two Democratic candidates in that cycle to have come out in favor of a “carbon tax” at the time.
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“… and that we have to monitor whether it’s going to be passed on to consumers.”
The money going to the government is going to come out of somebodies pocket. Company employees? Share holders? Outside contractors (eg. exploration)? Or cut back on plant maintenance, not at all healthy.
[And KH isn’t even a blond. Then again, blonds are now telling AOC jokes, I guess that tend could be extended.]
The great deception is a ‘carbon fee or carbon tax’ DOES NOT EXIST. It is a lie to incorrectly assume that carbon is in the atmosphere emitted by burning fossil fuels. Co2 is not carbon and will never be. The solid form of CO2 is dry ice, the coldest element on earth at minus 69* C. Conflating CO2 with carbon would be as stupid and false as conflating H2O with hydrogen. Never done!. The reason for the false shortcut using carbon instead of carbon dioxide is to sully the nontoxic non, non-polluting air you exhale with every breath at 40,000 ppm. If alarmists had not engaged in this lie about carbon dioxide and carbon, there would be little public support for climate alarmism. The unscientific demonizing of CO2 would not have happened.
Oxides are dangerous. Stop and think about the number of deaths each year associated with dihydrogen monoxide.