More Government, More Power: Denver City Council’s New Green Idea Follows Old Playbook

August 9, 2019

No matter if it’s the Green New Deal in Washington or Carbon Taxes across the nation, every “idea” that comes from the eco-left has the same result: more power and money for them.

It’s no different in Denver where the City Council President is proposing a “pollution tax” on the city’s small businesses. According to the report:

“The cost to a typical small business could be about $300 per year, according to Denver Post estimates derived from Xcel usage figures. But larger businesses and industrial users could pay significantly more: The average industrial customer could see their yearly bills increase by almost $3,200, while the average commercial bill could increase almost $1,400 for the year, according to 2018 usage figures.”

Taking money from job creators to be redistributed by the government is a common theme from the eco-left.  You might recall the Chief of Staff for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was recently caught accidently being truthful about the Green New Deal saying, “it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all … we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.”

It appears the Denver City Council is using the same playbook.