{"id":37752,"date":"2018-11-16T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/i-1631-just-another-government-money-grab\/"},"modified":"2018-11-16T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T17:30:00","slug":"i-1631-just-another-government-money-grab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/i-1631-just-another-government-money-grab\/","title":{"rendered":"I-1631? Just another government money grab"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought the Reporter did a decent job of breaking down the election results. With one exception: I think you missed the boat on why I-1631 was rejected.<\/p>\n

Sure, “Big Oil” chipped in big bucks to beat it. Glad they did. But we “no” voters didn’t need their help in making a decision.<\/p>\n

There are plenty of us who retain a basic mistrust of the “climate change” oracles. We’re beyond trusting someone just because of what they do for a living. We know an agenda when we smell it.<\/p>\n

I-1631 would have raised money to do … what, exactly? It was to be dished out at the whims of some “to-be-named later” government apparatchiks, with no apparent plan even mentioned. Oh yeah, we’re “down for that.”<\/p>\n

One need not be a “climate scientist” to know that the three primary factors in the climate are (a) solar cycles; (b) the ocean’s thermal cycles; and (c) volcanoes. Everything else, e.g. atmospheric CO2 content, is small potatoes – at most.<\/p>\n

CO2 a poison? Without it there would be no life of any sort on Earth.<\/p>\n

I-1631 was just another government money grab, wrapped in the bogus righteousness of “climate change.”<\/p>\n

– Ted Reinhart <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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