{"id":586,"date":"2009-03-02T10:02:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T10:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=586"},"modified":"2009-03-02T10:02:15","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T10:02:15","slug":"the_new_era_of_carbon_fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=586","title":{"rendered":"The New Era Of &#8216;Carbon Fees&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2009\/03\/02\/logan_parking_costs_may_soar\/?page=1\">Boston.com<\/a>, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick is asking for a $2 &#8216;carbon fee&#8217; for parking at Logan Airport.&nbsp; The fee is part of his bill to overhaul transportation in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.&nbsp; Carbon Fee?&nbsp; Why not just call it the parking cost increase that&nbsp;it is (your basic stealth tax increase that will only effect a small percentage of people and therefore will not cause too much resistence)?&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The misplaced war on carbon will see many such stealth tax increases.&nbsp; The cap and trade proposals in the new budget proposed by President Obama will have the same kind of stealth tax increases on people and businesses.&nbsp; The stealth tax increases on businesses will be passed on to the consumer, and despite promises to the contrary, we will all be paying more taxes in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Boston.com, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick is asking for a $2 &#8216;carbon fee&#8217; for parking at Logan Airport.&nbsp; The fee is part of his bill to overhaul transportation in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.&nbsp; Carbon Fee?&nbsp; Why not just call &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=586\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}