Whether he knows it or not, Joe Biden signed an Executive order that attempts to assigns dollar values to the social costs of Climate Change. This could cram, by one estimate, 9.5 trillion dollars in fiscal abuses down onto the states.
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It’s called the Executive Order on Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis. As if government could do any of that if it tried.
Here’s the opening paragraph.
Section 1. Policy. Our Nation has an abiding commitment to empower our workers and communities; promote and protect our public health and the environment; and conserve our national treasures and monuments, places that secure our national memory. Where the Federal Government has failed to meet that commitment in the past, it must advance environmental justice. In carrying out this charge, the Federal Government must be guided by the best science and be protected by processes that ensure the integrity of Federal decision-making. It is, therefore, the policy of my Administration to listen to the science; to improve public health and protect our environment; to ensure access to clean air and water; to limit exposure to dangerous chemicals and pesticides; to hold polluters accountable, including those who disproportionately harm communities of color and low-income communities; to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; to bolster resilience to the impacts of climate change; to restore and expand our national treasures and monuments; and to prioritize both environmental justice and the creation of the well-paying union jobs necessary to deliver on these goals.
It’s climate justice blah blah blah and we know it’s BS. The same government has exhausted trillion to “help” communities of color and those on low incomes. The result. The government has expanded exponentially along with its cost of operation enriching the ruling class while have no net positive effect on low-incomes or people of color.
IN other words, this is one-party state self-enrichment by other means. Twelve States, lead by Missouri, claim that (WRBA) has no such authority under existing law.
[T]he suit claims that the impact from the $9.5 trillion “social cost” of greenhouse gases will stretch farther than just Missouri.
“In practice, this enormous figure will be used to justify an equally enormous expansion of federal regulatory power that will intrude into every aspect of Americans’ lives— from their cars, to their refrigerators and homes, to their grocery and electric bills,” the suit states.
“It will be used to inflict untold billions or trillions of dollars of damage to the U.S. economy for decades to come,” the suit states.
I appreciate the interest and wish them well – and it does need to be challenged – but what’s to stop the Democrat Congress from making it legal and WRBA telling Biden to sign it? Joe Manchin?
The Dems are not going to squander their majority as they did in 2009 and 2010. This Congressional crap factory is going to produce as much enabling legislation as it can. And State legislatures will need to counter with local laws that prohibit the execution of unconstitutional federal mandates within their borders.
This works well if you’ve got a Republican majority legislature with actual Republicans in it AND a like-minded governor.
Granite Staters should know that NH is not one of the states involved in the Missouri suit. That’s because we’re DC’s bitch when it comes to funding our budget, and our Governor is as well.
Other than the odd bit of bluster on low-hanging fruit, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a ruling class Republican willing to take a stand against federal overreach, and our Democrat delegation is all in on their Agenda.
Granite Staters will need to provide moral support to other states and governors while applying as much pressure as we can locally.
Rumor has it the magic number is 20,000.
If we can find 20,000 people to pressure Gov. Sununu (petition signatures, emails, calls), we could get him to take the right side.
How many Free Staters moved here, again?
State attorneys general joining Missouri, are from Arkansas, Arizona, Indiana, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah.
The embedded links above are to the cached local copy the original EO at WH.gov can be found here.
