As ExxonMobil CEO, Donald Trump’s secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson lobbied for the onerous carbon tax on the American people.
In a 2009 speech delivered at the left-leaning Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., Tillerson rallied attendees to garner support for his carbon tax proposal.
“A carbon tax strikes me as a more direct … a more transparent … and a more effective approach,” Tillerson said, in voicing his support over a cap-and-trade policy. “A carbon tax can be more easily implemented. It could be levied under the current tax code without requiring significant new infrastructure or enforcement bureaucracies.” he added.
Tillerson explained that he opposed cap-and-trade, not because it would be morally wrong to tax Americans based on unsettled, unscientific claims, but because it would not be as cost-effective due to its “complexity.”
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In his demands for the carbon tax, Tillerson got in bed with the far-left. “By backing it, Mr. Tillerson has become an unlikely member of a club that includes former Vice President Al Gore, consumer advocate Ralph Nader and President-elect Barack Obama’s designated head of the National Economic Council, Larry Summers,” stated a Wall Street Journal article in January 2009.
Before Rex Tillerson became ExxonMobil CEO, the company had skeptical stance in the climate change debate. With the appointment of Tillerson came a radical shift in their climate policy, which included rallying Congress to enact a crippling tax on Americans.
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