Harvard Hometown Plans Coercive Taxes, Veganism to Stop Climate 'Emergency'
By Joshua Rhett Miller
FOXNews.com
Congestion pricing to reduce car travel. Elimination of curbside parking. A carbon tax "of some kind," not to mention taxes on plastic and paper bags. Advocating vegetarianism and veganism, complete with "Meatless or Vegan Mondays." Those are just some of the proposals put forth by the Cambridge Climate Congress, an entity created in May 2009 to respond to the "climate emergency" plaguing the Massachusetts city.
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*sigh*
Were these people born idiots, or did they get some kind of “you will be an idiot” education? The correct answer, of course, is the latter. HARVARD!
And how do these Harvard Twits plan to stop similar climate change on the other planets of our solar system? Is Earth the only one who’s “climate change” is due to evil man-made pollutants?
IDIOTS!!!!! Obama claims to have gone to Harvard – though we don’t (and never will) have definitive proof other than a photo shopped picture of a black face in a sea of white law students.
My God. Save us from the nitwits from Harvard and the stupid Obamunists in general. What crap!!
Do the world a favor. Slap a silly liberal HARD today.
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5 comments:
A quick view of restaurants in Cambridge just now reveals the following. About 99% of them serve MEAT. Beef, pork, chicken, turkey, seafood of all stripe, etc, are ALL very evident there. It would appear that 50% of the local places have some sort of vegetarian fare, and I applaud that from a business tangent. But even the Indian restaurants, from a culture with vegetarianism ingrained in it for 2000 years, serve chicken and shrimp!!
And I'm talking non-chain, non-franchise here. When we add the chains, we get the usual Big 3 burger wars affiliates, McD's. Burger King and Wendys. I found about 5 or 6 of them there.
I'm NOT believing that these places are going to just shudder their doors on Modays, to please the Global Handwringing crowd. It's NOT what business people do, go into business to close one day per week, for global ANYTHING reasons. (I'm guessing the folks at Chik-fil-a will ask to be closed on Sundays instead?)
I'm sure this will get shot down as did Blue Laws in the country, under Interruption of Trade statutes. In the U.S., municipalities and states DO NOT have the power to stop businesses from opening, for any reasons beyond the immediate public safety. That's how they keep topless clubs from opening next to schools.
But here's something that I didn't see in the article, the potential loss of sales taxes, from closed restaurants that serve meat. MA has a 6.25% Sales Tax on prepared foods, Cambridge has a 5% sales tax too. IF those restaurants that serve meat are closed the taxes won't get paid. Likewise, the wages won't get paid and the associated income tax, FICA etc. And what about the loss of profits and income, taxes, etc for the places that sell goods to these restaurants?
As usual, a bunch of pointy-headed liberal, academics deciding on how businesses should operate comes up long on emotions, short on facts and thinking.
Slap a silly liberal: The only liberal in my house is our foreign exchange student. With a foot of unmelted snow that is 2 weeks old on the ground, and snow in 49 states (Jimbo, no snow on Mauna Kea??) he still believes in global warming. Fool.
I really don't think this has anything to do with closing anyones business or serving "safe" food. But, as is typical of the Left, it has everything to do with social engineering and "regulating" businesses into submission, as King Bloomberg has done here in NYC. By imposing draconian regulations and mind-boggling fines on businesses, they can control what their customers (the people) do. If the King doesn't like trans-fats, he forces restuarants to stop using them, thereby controlling what the people can have.
He can't stop tobacco from being grown and sold, so he imposes outragous taxes on the retailers which of course, get passed onto consumers and alter their behavior. Again, it's about CONTROL. Same thing with guns, which is why it's so very expensive to get a carry permit here.
As i've said many times. All this nonsense is not about health care, or the environment, or jobs, or bank loans, as stated. It's about acquiring the ability and power to control what people do. It's that simple.
C-Bug -
The current web cams on and around Mauna Kea show no snow today. But be assured there has been snow in all 50 states this winter.
Mauna Kea Web Cams:
http://mkwc.ifa.hawaii.edu/current/cams/index.cgi?mode=multi
Jimbo,
I looked too, when I first heard snow in 49 states. But snow in all 50 states in one month, is significant too.
Spider,
I'm like you, it's about control. But they thought about this for 15 seconds before setting it in motion, and didn't consider the wide effects, costs or fighting. They may get lower traffic, higher gas taxes, etc, but the businesses are going to fight them over being forced to close BECAUSE they sell meat.
If for no other reason than that it gives an unfair advantage to the vegetabletarian restaurants. And even in stupid,liberal places MA, the courts aren't going to allow that JUST in Cambridge. If they'd gone for a statewide ban, they might have gotten it through.
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