DC Can Do Better—When It Chooses to Do So – Opinion

DC has a problem. It almost never seems to care about reality. Which is inherent in anything government – and especially so when the government is as HUGE as is ours.

To wit: Government doesn’t have to earn a dime.  Everything it spends – it takes from us. Therefore, it is not interested in the terrible implications of so many horrible taxes, laws and regulations. We the Employed waste WAY too much of our time and effort complying with – and paying for – government.

The result of decades of DC’s disinterest in the ramifications of its over-taxing and over-regulating?  Tens of thousands of US businesses have closed – and/or moved overseas. Taking with them tens of millions of jobs – to nations that aren’t quite as stupid about abusing domestic businesses.

The global market has become a bizarre, anti-US nightmare scape over the past 50 years. Competitor nations (Hello, Communist China) offer slave labor, protectionist trade polices and massive subsidies – to the companies we have been over-taxing and over-regulating.

Shocker: Businesses have found the US to be a less desirable place to do business – than just about any other nation on the planet.

It is in this grotesque, anti-US global marketplace that governments are allegedly addressing “climate change.”

“Allegedly” – because most countries are actually doing nothing.

The Latest Round of Global Climate Lie ‘Pledges’ from International Polluters

Leaders of China, India, and Other Major Economies Skip Out on Biden’s Latest Climate Forum

China and India Keep Building Coal Plants Despite the Paris Agreement

Europe Still Building New Coal Power Stations

Japan races to build new coal-burning power plants despite climate risks

Some international flagrancies seem absurd.

China’s Slave Labor, Coal-Fired, Mass-Subsidized Solar Panels Dominate the Planet

Meanwhile, there’s US. We have gotten dramatically cleaner….

Trump’s Trump-Related Drop in US Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Don’t Believe the Hype: US Carbon Emissions Are Actually Dropping

We did it without resorting to economic self-immolation.

Except, enter Joe Biden. Are you asking for an economic self-immolation by the United States?

‘Greenwash’: The US Is the Only Country Actually Engaged in Economic Suicide

The Anti-Science Absurdity of the US’s Unilateral Carbon Dioxide Disarmament

‘Build Back Better?’ The ‘Infrastructure’ Bill Was More ‘Climate Change’ Than Infrastructure

Last September, DC was in the midst of foundering and floundering with its attempts to pass the even-more-exceedingly-awful, “climate change” nightmare mess, woefully misnamed “Build Back Better” bill.

Biden’s ‘Build Back Never’: His Endless Government Assaults Will Make Building America Impossible

We wrote the following in middle of all that madness early-autumn.

Trump Trade Principles for Mitigating the Climate Alarmists’ and their Many Taxes

This was where we defended the concept of border carbon taxes. That exactly matched the border tariffs we’d long championed – to mitigate the damage the grotesque, anti-US global marketplace had long been doing to domestic businesses.

The Real Protectionism: Defending DC’s Crony Globalist Fake ‘Free Trade’

We Need to Finally Delineate Between Fake ‘Free’ Trade – and Really Stupid Trade

Getting to Actual Free Trade Ain’t Easy – But It’s Necessary

‘The Forgotten Man’ in DC’s Fake ‘Free Trade’: Millions of Unemployed Americans

Importing Government Subsidies: The Worst of Fake ‘Free Trade’

We have even previously, specifically championed a border adjustment tax – in a non-carbon context.

The ‘Border Adjustment Tax’: Great Tax Reform – That Gets Us Great Trade Reform

Phil Gramm’s Terrible Mistake on the Border Adjustment Tax

In September last year, the carbon frontier tax was the only non-Democratic nation to be championed.

Democrats propose a border tax based on carbon emissions:

“Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del. and Rep. Scott Peters (D-Calif.) announced Monday a new import tax for countries failing to meet U.S. carbon emissions standards….

“Goods covered by the proposal include petroleum, coal, aluminum, steel, iron and cement.

“The tax would be on par with the environmental fees levied against American companies under state and federal regulations….

“‘We must ensure that U.S. workers and manufacturers aren’t left behind…” Coons said….”

DC is a unique place!

Let’s go back to last week. And the carbon border adjustment tax’s popularity has grown – and grown bipartisan. And both sides are citing former President Donald Trump – just as we did in September.

Bipartisan Climate Solution

“Momentum is building on both sides of the aisle to come up with a measure to penalize imports of high polluting goods, and lawmakers are taking a page out of former President Donald Trump’s book….

“‘It looks and feels a lot like Trump’s tariffs…’ Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) said.

“Republicans are eager to tackle competition with China, whose lax environmental standards often mean lower production prices, and create an ‘America-first’ climate policy.  ‘Donald Trump should love it,’ (Republican) Sen. Kevin Cramer said.”

Democrats have LONG wanted to impose a carbon tax – on US, not them. This is why.

Democrats are considering adding a carbon tax to the massive budget bill:

“Democrats are exploring adding a carbon tax to their massive $3.5 trillion budget bill as a way to offset some of the bill’s cost. Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden told CNN that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer asked him to look at carbon pricing, and that discussions are ongoing.

“‘We’ve got a lot of senators who care deeply about it,’ Wyden said.”

So, the Democrats’ shift away from yet again punishing US is most welcome.

And here’s hoping these embarrassment “conservatives” also figure it out.

Conservatives embrace the carbon tax: A new idea gains steam

Because as we have long suggested….

Build Back Never: Let’s Carbon Tax Them – Not US

Oh: And now that we are myopically distracted by an irrelevant border skirmish on the other side of the planet….

Let’s Not Shoot at Russians – Let’s Tariff Their Petroleum (and Everything Else)

The carbon border adjustment tax is the best way to thread the trade-“climate change” needle.

Let’s start to undo the anti-US, grotesque global marketplace that we’ve endured for so long.

See, DC? It’s possible to do more.

So please – do better.