My only quibble with this guy is his pseudonym:
A conservative House GOP aide, writing under a pen name, says Republicans are screwing up on climate change but can seize the high ground from Democrats by promoting a “revenue-neutral” carbon tax.
The aide’s essay urges Republicans to embrace the carbon tax idea, which currently has buy-in from some conservative mavericks outside Capitol Hill but faces huge GOP resistance in Congress.
“Someone in the GOP needs to say it: conservation is conservative; climate change is real; and conservatives need to lead on solutions because we have better answers than the other side,” opens the essay by “Eric Bradenson” that was published Wednesday on the website Real Clear Science.
Bradenson laments that Democrats have “owned the climate change conversation” but have lousy policies, while Republicans are wasting time questioning climate science instead of pushing a better policy agenda.
“Republicans can admit that 97 percent of scientists just might be right without having to embrace Democratic ideas that would grow government,” states the essay by Bradenson, who claims to work for an unnamed GOP member.
It extols the merits of a revenue-neutral tax on carbon emissions that would be offset with reductions in other taxes, while phasing out subsidies for all energy sources. …
Bradenson alleges that the left, in contrast to conservative proposals and principles, wants to use a carbon tax “as a cash cow for the federal government, using the revenue to pay for legislators’ pet projects or to keep subsidies flowing to the preferred energy source du jour.”
via thehill.com
I would have gone with "Toby Flenderson." And, actually, another quibble is that, if the national debt is a problem, the extra revenue can be used to reduce the deficit. While reducing the deficit is mentioned as a good thing it, apparently, can only be achieved by getting rid of energy subsidies.
What do you bet that the major activity caused by this essay is to try to figure out who this "Flenderson" is and blackball him/her from politics (so that he/she can go on Fox News and get rich)?
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