Quote:Speaking to students at the University at Albany, Bill Nye the Science Guy said that a carbon tax was needed for the purpose of redistributing wealth.

"We need, dare I say it, a tax, or should I say a fee," Nye purportedly said Wednesday, right before an anonymous student began recording.

“It’s not just to be mean, it’s to redistribute wealth,” Nye said.
Nye went on to claim that instituting such a tax would drive innovation in more environmentally friendly ways.

"It will stimulate people investing in more energy efficient means. If you gotta pay a fee every time you make carbon monoxie and somone comes up with a more efficient car, you’ll use that car. Somebody comes up with a more efficient blender, you’ll use that blender. I mean, that’s just how it’s going to go."

The free campus event distributed 1,000 copies of Nye’s new book

Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation to students in attendance. The lecture, part of an annual student-run speaker series, quickly became a pro-big government, higher taxes rally.

“The trouble with this is, there are people now, in the U.S. government, who don’t like government,” Nye lectured.

The former television host and Disney actor then ranted about limited government conservatives, comparing them to a General Motors employee that wants to shut their own company down.

“We have to get people who really want the government to do what it’s supposed to do, which is run things,” Nye said.

(03-27-2015 09:40 AM)QuestionSocratic Wrote:  Since we started debating global warming on this board, I have consistently posted that "redistribution", in one form or another, was the driving force for the liberal position.

(03-27-2015 09:48 AM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  

(03-27-2015 09:40 AM)QuestionSocratic Wrote:  Since we started debating global warming on this board, I have consistently posted that "redistribution", in one form or another, was the driving force for the liberal position.

Considering that most liberals are fairly weak, bitter and I am finding, increasingly intolerant of success, and based on the well established liberal philosophy that only the central state truly represents the will of all of the people, it makes perfect sense for the average liberal to believe that their best chance for economic advancement is through redistribution, not opportunity.

(03-27-2015 10:06 AM)vandiver49 Wrote:  At least those at the top are accumulating power but I have no idea how all the other loyal acolytes agree with that plan.

(03-27-2015 10:27 AM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  

(03-27-2015 10:06 AM)vandiver49 Wrote:  At least those at the top are accumulating power but I have no idea how all the other loyal acolytes agree with that plan.

Because of liberal programs that have created a society where far too many people end up using those government resources their entire lives.

Quote:Also, white guilt.

Quote:I enjoyed Bill Nye's show as a kid but I think he's kind of a blowhard as an adult.

(03-27-2015 04:50 PM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  At the core of any liberal plan, there's always income redistribution. Every few years they just put lipstick on a new pig.

(03-27-2015 06:17 PM)Love and Honor Wrote:  When it comes to celebrity scientists, I'll go with Neil deGrasse Tyson over Bill Nye every time. But I'll give him credit where he's due, he kicked the s*** out of Ken Ham in that debate a year ago.