The Patriot Post® · Schumer: POTUS Hillary Will Create Carbon Tax

Sen. Chuck Schumer is being presumptuous on so many levels. The Democrat from New York, heir to Democrat leadership in Congress, told an environmentalist event Tuesday that a Hillary Clinton administration would move forward with a carbon tax — even though the Obama administration rejected the plan in 2012. “If Hillary wins and we take back the Senate, I believe many of our Republican friends will say we’ve been starving the government for revenues, but many of them will not be for raising rates,” Schumer said. “I think in 2017 people of both parties might come to that as the best way to fund the government.” As Ed Morrissey notes, when have conservatives ever been for raking in more money for the government? Furthermore, Schumer is throwing his weight behind Clinton, completely disregarding his colleague Bernie Sanders. Pity for Sanders, because this pushes Clinton further left, where Sanders already stands. Such statements from the likes of Schumer not only show the Democrats’ ultimate plan for the environment and the economy, but that Democrats want to shift the party toward greater socialism. Hillary is no longer a moderate, if unethical, politician; she’s the heir to Obama’s aspirations, and she’ll go further than he ever did.