More limousine liberals—this one from the New York Times—lecturing the plebeians about how to live. And as usual, they suggest that government impose taxes in order to engineer society into the more well-behaved, “green” citizens they envision.
Our Steve Milloy wrote this up today on his Green Hell blog:
aFraidman of the day: $140 billion ‘Freedom Tax’ on gasoline
June 24, 2009
New York Times columnist Tom Friedman is giving Al Gore a run for his money in the Green Hypocrisy Derby.
Friedman — known on this blog as aFraidman for ducking debate with Steve Milloy — called today for a $1-per-gallon tax on gasoline. This Orwellian “Freedom Tax,” as aFraidman called it, would be used to…
…stimulate more investment in renewable energy now; … stimulate more consumer demand for the energy-efficient vehicles that the reborn General Motors and Chrysler are supposed to make; and,… reduce our oil imports in a way that would surely affect the global price and weaken every petro-dictator.
The ever-compassionate aFraidman would allow rebates to the poor and elderly — as if such a rebate would somehow magically immunize these vulnerable groups from the higher costs the rest of us would pay and that would ripple throughout the economy. A year ago, $4-gas was choking Meals-on-Wheels services to the elderly and disabled around the country. …
Steve Milloy helpfully includes a photo of that New York Times columnist Tom Friedman’s $9.3 million, 11,400 square-foot home, built on 7.5 clear-cut acres in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Bethesda, Md. (Friedman married into his wife’s inherited money).
… which looks like so many other lecturing liberals’ homes.
Here’s John Edwards’ house which was similarly built after first clear-cutting huge swaths of forest…
…and here’s Al Gore’s…
…We could fill pages with mansions…
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