Carbon Tax Passes Senate
It’s breaking news
After 2 months discussion in congress for President Clark ambition to tackle the climate change finaly the bill pasing the senate. A 10$ dollar tax per tonne which will increase every year for the emission will be signed later by President Clark to officialy become law. The carbon tax believed to reduce the US Carbon emission to zero in 2030 as a commitment to paris agreement, it’s also approximately will give US government tax revenue for 4 Trillion dollar in 2021 which in the first year 1 trillion dollar will be used to fund President Clark Clean America program to build clean energy infrastructure.
Hours after U.S. Senate passes the carbon tax a protest show up in Nebraska. Hundreds of activist and farmers gather on the street demanding federal government to scrap the federal carbon tax hours after it is passed. Activist concern that the carbon tax is a bad public policy, a carbon tax design raises the cost of energy. Making energy less affordable diminishes economic growth,household income, and consumer purchasing power. Also US farmers who lived in Nebraska complain that the carbon tax could increase US farmers millions of dollars a year in extra taxes and increase costs for heating farm buildings, moving commodity and many things.
Hastag #Scrapthecarbontax went viral on twitter just a few hours after the protest show up. Even 10 Republican senator vote this bill, Carbon Tax oppposition from republican Senate Minority Leader Carl Mcdavid gives his support to scrap the carbon tax saying “ They will losing their cars, they will losing their homes, and that's because of this horrible tax policy. #scrapthecarbontax”