Young conservatives are even craftier. @1a has young activists on, one talking about climate activism, promoting a carbon dividend - a huge piece of leftist policy ideas... Except she's making an anti-gov't flat tax frame. Money should go to people, not gov't. And, in equal amts.
Group on @1a is Young Conservatives for Carbon Dividends. Notwithstanding insidiousness of using Carbon Tax as trojan horse for Flat Tax and inequity of giving rich people same dividend as people struggling to pay electric bill, it is a bad policy idea. Undermines effect of tax.
If gov't just returns to all consumers the carbon tax $$ being paid by consumers, it would have zero impact on changing behavior, which is the actual point of a carbon tax. Hilarious that @1a host Jen White is saying the young woman "focuses on climate change" in her activism.
She focuses on climate change in way Betsy DeVos focuses on inequities in education. Charlatans appropriating issues -- claiming to acknowledge problems, but instead of proposing solutions, they're pushing a conservative agenda meant to make conservative-owned business wealthier.
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