If politicians could tax baby bunnies they would

“No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.”
– Lily Tomlin

I’ve said it before. If a politician says he wants to enact a tax to protect baby bunnies, the truth is usually that he’d just as soon tax the baby bunnies if he could get away with it.

Investor’s Business Daily – Dems Cool On Climate Change As Economic Pressures Escalate:

Pelosi said earlier this year that she wouldn’t even try to bring up a climate-change bill in 2009 because she lacked the votes. She reversed course last month, telling the San Francisco Chronicle that the House would try to set a vote by December to coincide with a global warming summit in Copenhagen, Denmark.

One reason for the change, Pelosi said, was that the government needed the money it could get from the auctioning off of the emissions permits under a cap-and-trade program. “I believe we have to because we see that as a source of revenue,” the Chronicle reported her saying.

When a politician says “it isn’t about raising taxes” it’s about raising taxes. At this point Pelosi isn’t even denying that the emissions permits are all about the Benjamins. And that other thing, too, the enviro-whoozit.