{"id":293706,"date":"2018-12-04T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=293706"},"modified":"2018-12-06T15:57:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T20:57:00","slug":"macron-surrenders-to-yellow-vests-on-carbon-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/12\/04\/macron-surrenders-to-yellow-vests-on-carbon-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron Surrenders on Carbon Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Speaking of which, ladies and gentlemen, have you seen what happened in France? This little Millennial president has canceled his carbon tax. The middle class protesters have won the day<\/a>. The yellow vesters have won the day. Grab audio sound bite No. 2. This is Edouard Philippe, who is the prime minister in France, and he delivered a televised address to the nation about the yellow vest riots yesterday and said this.<\/p>\n

PHILIPPE: (via translator) The yellow vests love their country. They want their taxes to be decreased and their revenues to increase. This is at the heart of the president\u2019s engagement, and if I did not succeed in expressing this — if the majority had trouble convincing the French people — I see that we need to change something. No tax ought to endanger the nation\u2019s unity. We have heard the demand expressed by all those who have consulted in the past few days. I suspend, for a duration of six months, the tax measures.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: (laughing) Six months! “We\u2019re gonna suspend the tax for six months, but you better be ready, because we\u2019re gonna slap it back on you again at the beginning of summer when you\u2019re gonna be driving more than you are now. We\u2019re gonna soak you. We\u2019re just gonna delay it for six months.” But the bottom line is you\u2019ve seen all of the video out of France. Remember as I so credulously intoned yesterday: Europe, we are told… We are told Europe\u2019s utopia.<\/p>\n

The Europeans have it down pat! The Europeans know how to do life in the twenty-first century. They have trains. They don\u2019t pollute. The Europeans are all in on fixing climate change. The Europeans have multiculturalism down. They\u2019re sophisticated! The Europeans don\u2019t have any rabble that have anything to say about anything. Europe is utopia. And this little guy macaroon (or whatever his name is, Macron) bought into this idea that the whole world…<\/p>\n

See, this is what the left does and what the media does. Whatever their issues are, they act like every human being alive agrees with them. So this guy thinks that he was elected to raise taxes to fix climate change. So he goes about it, does it, and holy hell greets him as a result, and he\u2019s stunned! He\u2019s stunned. He thought his approval numbers would skyrocket. Why, after all, the people realize we\u2019ve only got a few years to save earth, and this is a vastly necessary step.<\/p>\n

Except when it happens to you! When you\u2019re being blamed and when you\u2019re told, “You have to bear the burden of all the damage you\u2019ve caused in destroying the planet; here\u2019s $7-a-gallon gasoline,” people say, “Whoa! You fix it.” They\u2019re not signing up for it whatsoever. But in this case the French are doing exactly what the global climate change political movement wants done. This little president over there passes a massive tax on carbon, driving the price of gasoline over $7 a gallon.<\/p>\n

\"\"And, you know, this is still not a big story in the Drive-By Media, especially it isn\u2019t gonna be a big story in the Drive-Bys that the tax has been postponed and rescinded, because this is a forerunner of what they want to do around the world. It\u2019s exactly what they want to do here, starting back in the 1990s. Bill Clinton was the first to propose a carbon tax, seriously, in 1992\/1993. It didn\u2019t go anywhere. It routinely comes up. Lot of Republicans sign onto it too. Environmental protection, don\u2019t you know. In fact, this is a New York Times story.<\/p>\n

“France will suspend for six months a small tax increase on gasoline and diesel fuel that had been slated for January, in an attempt to quell weeks of protests and rioting by the so-called Yellow Vests movement.” There\u2019s nothing “so-called” about them. That\u2019s who they are. The middle class are required to have these vests in the car case there\u2019s an accident. They put \u2019em on so they won\u2019t be run down by other motorists. Small tax. Small increase in it. Nothing that\u2019s justifying this kind of reaction.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Philadelphia. This is Westin, and I\u2019m glad you called, sir. Welcome to our program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Good day. How are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Good. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just received your golf shirt. Very nice. Thank you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m glad you got one of those.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m hoping that I win that trip to see you. That would be great.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. We should have that announcement soon, by the way. But I\u2019m glad you got one of the shirts. You\u2019re gonna love that shirt, especially when the heat and humidity come. That\u2019s one of the dry fit shirts, will not hold the sweat. You\u2019re gonna love that shirt.<\/a><\/p>\n

CALLER: Look forward to wearing it. Well, two things, two things. Just briefly, real quick. It pains me with this stuff with H. W. and W., is that, you know, when Republicans are interviewed by members of the press, they have to fake amnesia, that they can\u2019t remember the unweathering assaults on Reagan, H. W., W., Romney. I mean, they just pretend that it never happened. And that\u2019s what galls me. We all know that the Republicans, no matter who it is, comes under withering, uncivil attack from these people. And yet we pretend it doesn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n

But the point of my call is the Macron stuff, Macron stuff with the yellow jackets and the carbon tax, this is what it\u2019s been all about. It\u2019s been the attack on the middle class. And so you can juxtapose Macron and the yellow jackets with what\u2019s going on with Trump in this country. Trump is the defender of the middle class. And thank God we have him. He\u2019s all that we have. It shows you, you mentioned it many times, the hatred really isn\u2019t for Donald Trump. It\u2019s for his supporters.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Damn straight.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The great unwashed, the rabble.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Damn straight. Trump wouldn\u2019t be there if not for people like you voting. Damn right you are.<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: That\u2019s right. And, you know, we saw that. The night of the election, 9:30, 10:30, or 11:30, they immediately, they couldn\u2019t hold back their attacks. Van Jones, this was a whiteout or something, you know, the angry old white man came out, you know, the people in Michigan and Ohio and Pennsylvania who had seen their towns literally disappear and said, “No, we don\u2019t want to get on the welfare wagon that the left\u2019s offering. We want to bring our country back, make it great again and get us working again.\u201d And they said, \u201cUh, can\u2019t believe these people. They don\u2019t want to sit on their ass and be on the dole.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute. That actually is a good point that I want to put an addendum to when you talk about Van Jones. I\u2019d forgotten that, that he did call this a whiteout. Trump\u2019s victory was called a whiteout. And he meant by that, the people they\u2019re trying to take the country away from is — that\u2019s exactly what he means, white male Christians and so forth who also have hunting licenses. That\u2019s the people they are trying to take the country away from because that\u2019s the people, those are the people they think have all the racism, sexism, bigotry and all the problems since the country was founded. They\u2019ve had an unfair length of time running this country, and it\u2019s time they gave it up and Hillary was gonna do it.<\/p>\n

And Trump comes along, those people came out of the woodwork and saved their country, in their view, and stopped people on the left. And they were livid. You\u2019re exactly right. Because they could see it in the palm of their hands that they were finally gonna take this country away from the majority, the people who founded it, the people who make it work. And it blew up in their faces.<\/p>\n

And you are so right when you talk about the contrast. In France it\u2019s blame the middle class, make \u2019em pay for climate change. They caused it with all of their lifestyles. And in this country, Trump, the one guy standing up for them continually. He never wavers. Those are good observations you made out there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, I hope to get a chance to golf with you in a couple of months.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, keep wearing that. What color shirt did you buy, by the way?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I got the blue one.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There you go. There you go. I\u2019m really honored that you got one, and I know you\u2019re gonna enjoy it. He got it the EIB Store at RushLimbaugh.com<\/a>, our big, big promotion one week ago.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ooh! We have a phone call from the South of France. This is Steven. I\u2019m glad to have you on the program, Steven. Thank you for calling. Hello.<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: Mega dittos from the South of France, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Where in the South of France are you, exactly?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly, we\u2019re in between the cities of Carcassonne and Narbonne.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s a beautiful place.<\/p>\n

CALLER: We have a guesthouse if you want to come visit.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ah, it is tempting. It is tempting. I love the South of France.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s not why I called. Okay. I wanted to call about the yellow vest movement here. It really does seem to be a really grassroots movement. There are people who are trying to co-opt it, but it\u2019s still hard for the government to find leaders that they can talk to, and it does seem to be a mixture of people from across the political spectrum, both right and left. And while it started, I think, because of the fuel tax, that was kind of straw that broke the camel\u2019s back. They are all over the place with their demands.<\/p>\n

The left element is calling for the redistribution of more wealth. Others are calling for Macron to resign, which won\u2019t happen, but that\u2019s what they\u2019re asking for. And a couple of times here recently you\u2019ve referred to Macron as a true believer with regard to climate change. It seems to me that there are two kinds of true believers. There are the tree huggers that worship the earth and for them it\u2019s a real religion. But I think most of the politicians fall into a separate group of true believers who believe that it\u2019s a great excuse to raise taxes on people. And what I find hard to really understand is how, if carbon is destroying our planet, how does it magically not destroy our planet just because people pay taxes on it?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s a very intriguing question. We are carbon, by the way, just like we are CO2. You realize, folks, that they say CO2 emissions are what\u2019s creating the greenhouse effect that then causes global warming and now climate change because it stopped warming for 15 years, it becomes a different term.<\/p>\n

We exhale CO2. There\u2019s no way to reduce CO2 emissions. But their point of raising taxes on gasoline, say, or diesel is designed to get people to use less of it. They\u2019re trying to make it unaffordable on the belief that doing so will save the climate. I mean, if people travel less and use less fossil fuel, less gasoline, less diesel, less petroleum overall, then there\u2019s less pollution and there\u2019s less CO2. And then there\u2019s less greenhouse effect, and then there\u2019s no global warming, and then we want to reduce the overall climate temperature by one and a half degrees Celsius over hundred years. And this is how we do it.<\/p>\n