The recent French demonstrations against President Emmanuel Macron's gasoline tax increase may have been the first such uprising, but it probably won't be the last-in France or elsewhere.
Hundreds of thousands of French working-class demonstrators took to the streets of Paris and other parts of the country to protest Macron's 25-cents per gallon gas tax increase, with more increases to follow.
Prime Minister Tony Abbot called the tax "a useless destructive tax which damaged jobs, which hurt families' cost of living and which didn't actually help the environment."
Closer to home, California raised the state's gasoline tax by 12 cents last year to 55.22 cents per gallon, the second highest in the country.
The federal government currently imposes its own tax on gasoline: 18.4 cents per gallon.
The federal gasoline tax hasn't been raised in 25 years and has lost 64 percent of its purchasing power.
Members of Congress recently introduced a bipartisan tax on carbon emissions, like Australia's, that would force fossil fuel-producing companies to pay $15 for each ton of carbon their products emit.
https://canadafreepress.com/article/french-rollback-of-climate-change-tax-sounds-death-knell-for-true-believers
Hundreds of thousands of French working-class demonstrators took to the streets of Paris and other parts of the country to protest Macron's 25-cents per gallon gas tax increase, with more increases to follow.
Prime Minister Tony Abbot called the tax "a useless destructive tax which damaged jobs, which hurt families' cost of living and which didn't actually help the environment."
Closer to home, California raised the state's gasoline tax by 12 cents last year to 55.22 cents per gallon, the second highest in the country.
The federal government currently imposes its own tax on gasoline: 18.4 cents per gallon.
The federal gasoline tax hasn't been raised in 25 years and has lost 64 percent of its purchasing power.
Members of Congress recently introduced a bipartisan tax on carbon emissions, like Australia's, that would force fossil fuel-producing companies to pay $15 for each ton of carbon their products emit.
https://canadafreepress.com/article/french-rollback-of-climate-change-tax-sounds-death-knell-for-true-believers
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