Kamala Admits Her Carbon Tax May Hit Consumers, “But that should never be the reason not to actually put a fee in.”

Kamala Harris endorsed a carbon tax and when asked about the tax hitting consumers, Harris said that’s no reason not to impose the tax.

“Under my plan, there will also be a carbon fee,” Harris said during a CNN presidential town hall in September 2019.

CNN moderator Erin Burnett asked Harris about the burden of the Harris carbon tax on consumers.

Harris said:

“We have to monitor whether it is gonna be passed on to consumers but I’m going to tell you, that should never be the reason not to actually put a fee in, in particular a carbon fee.”

Ouch!

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Kamala’s carbon tax would raise the cost of heating your home in the winter and cooling your home in the summer. It would raise the cost of filling your car. Such a carbon tax will further increase the power, cost, and intrusiveness of the government in our lives.

This is not an idle threat. Kamala’s progressive fuglemen in congress are pushing several carbon tax bills and most recently, nearly every House Democrat indicated support of a carbon tax: Only 10 House Democrats voted for a resolution expressing opposition to a carbon tax. All House Republicans except one voted for the resolution to express opposition to a carbon tax.

The vote was held on March 21, 2024. The resolution — H. Con. Res. 86 — expressed the sense that “a carbon tax would be detrimental to the United States economy.”

Key Senate Democrats also want to impose a carbon tax. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) began working on legislation to create a carbon tax that would start as high as $18 per ton of CO2 and increase over time. Such a proposal could increase taxes by more than one trillion dollars over a decade.

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