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It’s Official: Gary Johnson Is A Left-Wing Candidate, he's a Liberal with a capital L.
So all you Hillary supporters can safely switch to Johnson now!
ha ha
A new revelation about former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson's platform is, unfortunately, part of a continuing series, after he inexplicably came out against religious liberty and former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld expressed dubious sentiments about the Second Amendment.
Again, I ask: Why can't the Libertarian presidential ticket actually espouse libertarianism? The Libertarian Republican writes:
"I do believe that climate change is occurring," Johnson said. "I do believe that it is man-caused" and "that there can be and is a free-market approach to climate change."
Johnson's "free market" approach to global warming, includes "a fee — not a tax, he said — placed on carbon" to make those who emit the greenhouse gas pay the supposed cost of their actions, according to the Juneau Empire.
"We as human beings want to see carbon emissions reduced significantly," he said, adding the U.S. only emits "16 percent of the (global) load" CO2.
Johnson said: "I don't want to do anything that harms jobs."
It's not exactly clear how a "fee" on CO2 would be different than a "tax," but Johnson's announcement was picked up by environmentalists.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/liber...t-in-favor-of...-carbon-taxes/article/2003960
So all you Hillary supporters can safely switch to Johnson now!
ha ha
A new revelation about former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson's platform is, unfortunately, part of a continuing series, after he inexplicably came out against religious liberty and former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld expressed dubious sentiments about the Second Amendment.
Again, I ask: Why can't the Libertarian presidential ticket actually espouse libertarianism? The Libertarian Republican writes:
"I do believe that climate change is occurring," Johnson said. "I do believe that it is man-caused" and "that there can be and is a free-market approach to climate change."
Johnson's "free market" approach to global warming, includes "a fee — not a tax, he said — placed on carbon" to make those who emit the greenhouse gas pay the supposed cost of their actions, according to the Juneau Empire.
"We as human beings want to see carbon emissions reduced significantly," he said, adding the U.S. only emits "16 percent of the (global) load" CO2.
Johnson said: "I don't want to do anything that harms jobs."
It's not exactly clear how a "fee" on CO2 would be different than a "tax," but Johnson's announcement was picked up by environmentalists.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/liber...t-in-favor-of...-carbon-taxes/article/2003960
