British People Believe Global Warming is a Scam To Raise Taxes
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on May 11 2008 Filed under Politics.
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The instructive yet sad thing about our British cousins is that they have to be guinea pigs for all the leftist ruses for a few years before the same policies actually take hold in the United States. They have had their fill of the Global Warming hoax. From the Independent.
More than seven in 10 voters insist that they would not be willing to pay higher taxes in order to fund projects to combat climate change, according to a new poll.
The survey also reveals that most Britons believe “green” taxes on 4x4s, plastic bags and other consumer goods have been imposed to raise cash rather than change our behaviour, while two-thirds of Britons think the entire green agenda has been hijacked as a ploy to increase taxes.
And listen to this lefty logic about why the public is skeptical.
Mike Childs, the head of campaigns for Friends of the Earth, blamed the Government for generating a cynical response to “green taxes”. “People do get cynical unless they see benefits,” he said. “The Government is playing a dangerous game. They are using climate change to identify potential new taxes and revenues but the public aren’t seeing anything in return. The public aren’t being helped to go green. The Government could put a windfall tax on the big oil companies and use that money to insulate homes or introduce a feed-in tariff to pay people to produce renewable energy.”
So it really has nothing to do with whether man-made global warming actually exists. The people don’t believe it because the government has blown the money on other stuff? The public will never see anything in return, because government policies cannot be shown to have any effect on the climate.
Yet these nuts will not be deterred because clearly the public is not as smart as these brilliant politicians.
Hilary Benn, the Environment Secretary, said: “The Government is committed to building a low-carbon economy, here and around the world. That means a complete change in the way we live and an economic transformation that will put Britain at the forefront of a technological revolution in the way we use and source our energy.”
Bloody fools.
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