RGGI is One - Less - Tax - Granite Grok

RGGI is One – Less – Tax

RGGI

The New Hampshire House voted overwhelmingly to take the state out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) yesterday.  The vote signals the beginning of the end of another failed left wing experiment.

The benefactors of the tax, we’ll call them fear mongers, warned of the risks and even how there would not likely be any cost savings even if we do opt out.  But I find that hard to believe. In fact I find most of anything a democrat claims difficult to accept.

Start with Cap and trade.  As an idea it is thoroughly understood to be an utter failure at reducing emissions. It does not work.  It has never worked.  It is a failure unless your real goal is to enriches governments and favored players in the industry.  Yet democrats continue to defend it.  Why?

Because it is a tax, and a mostly invisible one at that.   A tax that also allows government to use the force of extracted wealth to further mandate changes in your behavior.

Everything under democrat rule is about changing behavior.  It is about removing property from you–your wages–and spending it on things they find valuable.  yor wishes for your own income are a secondary concern because liberals do not trust you to do with your money what they require of you.

So they tax it any way they can and then dole it out for their own personal social enrichment, growing the battlements of government along the way so that you cannot storm the castle and ruin their little party.

RGGI is a useless exercise in corporate socialism disguised as do-goodery for a non-existent problem.  It is a tax to be spent.

It’s repeal will be of insignificant consequence to its stated goal or the caterwauling on the left. Repeal will however send a significant message to the greater community and the nation.  Ending RGGI puts the nation on notice that New Hampshire is willing to let the people and the business community take individual responsibility for their shared environment.  If "green" is a successful marketing tool the world of commerce will find a way to make improvements on its own in a way that allows them to remain competitive and attract the dollars of consumers.  Consumer will reward them and they will thrive, expanding their influence in their market segment and the community.

The alternative is coercive taxation and redistribution by government. Which would you prefer?

The democrats have made their choice.  They don’t trust you so they’d rather tax you.  RGGI was just another tax.  Now it is on the way to becoming one less tax.  Another failed left-wing experiment undone.

 

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