PA Senate Passes Bipartisan, Veto-Proof Bill Blocking RGGI Carbon Tax

"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." (See below for the full quote.) Yesterday Pennsylvania Democrats unveiled their latest "generous gifts" they're promising to bestow on Pennsylvanians from the public treasury if Gov. Wolf gets his way and imposes a Marcellus-killing carbon tax on electric power generation. The Dems figure they can raise about $300 million a year via a carbon tax and they have a wish list bigger than your wildest dreams for where they'll spend it. One tiny problem for the Dems...

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