Because the tax burden is going up in the billions on the side there, the x-axis. Does my colleague see that on the side? It is the amount of tax in billions--the actual taxes you are taking from people, the tax burden, that is the problem. Look at it this way: If you are taking $2.5 billion from people today and then at the end of your budget you are taking $3.15 billion from people, that is all coming out of those tax numbers.
Discussing the increasing tax burden during a budget debate.
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It makes no sense whatsoever, and it's apparently--certainly makes no sense for the same people to be urgently arguing to deal with climate change and then either quiet or urgently opposed to nuclear power.
Without the 99 nuclear power plants that operate in 30 States, carbon emissions from the U.S. electric sector would be approximately 25 percent higher.
Yes, I do. And it's driven by people being concerned about carbon emissions and global warming, and common sense taking hold.
The issue for nuclear is that, because it does these good things, like reduce carbon and have reliability and be part of the diversity mix, it gets no credit for this in the marketplace.