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British People Believe Global Warming is a Scam To Raise Taxes
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The instructive yet sad thing about our British cousins is that they have to be guinea pigs for all the leftist ruses for a few years before the same policies actually take hold in the United States. They have had their fill of the Global Warming hoax. From the Independent.
More than seven in 10 voters insist that they would not be willing to pay higher taxes in order to fund projects to combat climate change, according to a new poll.
The survey also reveals that most Britons believe "green" taxes on 4x4s, plastic bags and other consumer goods have been imposed to raise cash rather than change our behaviour, while two-thirds of Britons think the entire green agenda has been hijacked as a ploy to increase taxes.
And listen to this lefty logic about why the public is skeptical.
Mike Childs, the head of campaigns for Friends of the Earth, blamed the Government for generating a cynical response to "green taxes". "People do get cynical unless they see benefits," he said. "The Government is playing a dangerous game. They are using climate change to identify potential new taxes and revenues but the public aren't seeing anything in return. The public aren't being helped to go green. The Government could put a windfall tax on the big oil companies and use that money to insulate homes or introduce a feed-in tariff to pay people to produce renewable energy."
So it really has nothing to do with whether man-made global warming actually exists. The people don't believe it because the government has blown the money on other stuff? The public will never see anything in return, because government policies cannot be shown to have any effect on the climate.
Yet these nuts will not be deterred because clearly the public is not as smart as these brilliant politicians.
Hilary Benn, the Environment Secretary, said: "The Government is committed to building a low-carbon economy, here and around the world. That means a complete change in the way we live and an economic transformation that will put Britain at the forefront of a technological revolution in the way we use and source our energy."
Bloody fools.
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Perhaps just in the nick of time
by patriotroom
before the new president takes office and rams some huge economy-killing bill down our throats.
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Strangely a lot of Western
by Herodotus
Strangely a lot of Western European countries often appear to have political; pendulums that constantly swing in the opposite direction of the US's. Just as the left is gaining ground in the US, the right is gaining in Western Europe.
...a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right...
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Long experience with interventionist government
by jonlester
has made them rightly skeptical.
I guess the AGW movement needs some big scare to persuade people into allowing higher taxes and government intervention. Simple conservation and recycling makes sense to people from all walks of life but it can be done without political changes and without the need for believing that climate change is either rapid or necessarily catastrophic.
And along came the
by Flagstaff
And along came the cyclone.
"An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.“--Jeff Cooper. From Bill Coffey's collection of military quotations
Not to fear. Algore has $300 million to waste...
by scottbomb
...on advertising this year. And as flagstff alluded to, he has already blamed the cyclone on AGW. His staff is probably busy gathering videos of the cyclone and the recent tornadoes here in the US to use for his summertime propaganda season.
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And what a horrendous scam it is. 600 million to the goreacle while he jets around and burns power like there is no tomorrow.
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and the British are correct!
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by ICRJCalvin
We are way ahead of them
by gandolphxx
Not in realizing that this is a scam, but in rushing to join the scam. The next administration will charge ahead on folly and stupidity no matter who wins - we lose.
Maybe I had some impact? ;-)
by ConservativePartyNow
I was over there about 18 months ago and was discussing this with some people in London who were sold on global warming. By the time I left, they were questioning it.
Who knew we had such influential
by patriotroom
international power brokers her at lil ol' RedState.
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Any Global Waqrmers out there?
by Raven
I STILL don't have any answers...!
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If the Brits have finally come around on this (in addition to electing a conservative mayor of London), that really gives me hope and gives further credence to my belief that global warming and "climate change" is having serious problems as a movement.
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