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RUSH: To me, it\u2019s not really shock and surprise. I awoke today to an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal<\/a> that actually was published late yesterday by James Baker and George Shultz advocating on behalf of the Republican establishment for a — (are you ready for it?) — dadelut, dadelut, dadelut — carbon tax! I said, “Wait a minute. Did I read this right? A carbon tax?<\/p>\n

\"\"“I mean, Bill Clinton wanted carbon tax. Barack Hussein Obama wanted a carbon tax. What the hell do we want a carbon tax for?” And I read further. Oh, because we need to take action on climate. I said, “No!” And then in exchange for a 20% carbon tax, we will get rid of cumbersome environmental regulations. I read that there are certain oil companies in favor of this and certain oil companies opposed to this. But here you go. Here\u2019s your Republican establishment. I mean, the senior members from years ago, been in it for decades, advocating a carbon tax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I awoke today to an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that actually was published late yesterday by James Baker and George Shultz advocating on behalf of the Republican establishment for a — (are you ready for it?) — dadelut, dadelut, dadelut — carbon tax! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcripts","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nWhy the Hell Would We Want a Carbon Tax? - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/02\/08\/why-the-hell-would-we-want-a-carbon-tax\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Why the Hell Would We Want a Carbon Tax? 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