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Sarkozy’s carbon tax ruled unconstitutional
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Even conservatives these days are taking climate change seriously. In Europe, anyway. But right-leaning eco-warriors still face difficulties when they try to get anything done. Yesterday the Guardian reported that a long-standing conservative MP John Gummer is leaving Parliament to ‘focus on international climate change campaign’. I say, well done. And Sarkozy… poor Nicolas Sarkozy, the sometimes comical President of France, member of the center-right UMP and pretender to the Green throne of Europe, suffered a defeat when his carbon tax was unexpectedly ruled unconstitutional by a court in France.
Well, perhaps Sarkozy’s carbon tax isn’t all it was cracked up to be. According to the Guardian, the responsible French court:
Ruled that rather than being the revolutionary measure Sarkozy promised, the tax would have let off many industrial polluters, while placing a disproportionately heavy burden on ordinary households.
That sounds more typically conservative, at least. Read more about French President Sarkozy’s failed carbon tax in the Guardian
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