If I have to pay a 10% flat rate carbon tax to the IRS, they can keep wishing but I won't pay it. First of all congress would have to pass a bill to make it possible. Second they would suffer dearly in the following election period.

So in short if the voters are as dems percieve as being lemmings then the vote will pass. And so ends the demorcatic "mandate". Frankly I think the mandate has run dry already.

The biggest thing Time magazine could do to help the world is GET A CLUE!

I have to wonder just how stupid Congress would have to get before the military took over the country for a while.  The members of Congress, like the members of the military take an oath when they begin service.  They swear to defend and protect the constitution and the country.  The Democrats, especially, have repeatedly and egregiously violated their oaths of office by attempting to implement the demands of the Communist Manifesto rather than following the words of the Constitution.

"A communist is someone who reads Marx.  An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx."  Ronald Reagan

"The party that raises taxes will pay dearly in the next election"?   Statistics and history show just the opposite.   48% of adults of working age adults pay no federal income tax (excluding FICA which the government assures us is not a tax but actually savings going into a secure trust fund for our old age).  Also, over 70% receive some type of regular government check.  It may be actual welfare, "earned income credit" or as a government employee (teacher, IRS agent, military, etc.).   Whether someone earns their check or not and whether the goods or services they provide are needed by the electorate, everyone who receives a government check has a stake in the government being able to continue to pay those checks and, they hope, increase the amounts in the future.  It all adds up to the fact that we are WAY past the "tipping point" on taxes.   That's the "tipping point" where more people (voters) benefit than are hurt by a tax increase. 
Things have changed drastically (for the worse) since Mondale sank his 1984 presidential campaign promising to raise taxes.  Today, the politician who proposes the LARGEST "revenue enhancement" and promises to spread those "enhancements" around to as many voters as possible is the winner, not the loser.
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At about the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in the year 1787, Alexander Tyler (a Scottish history professor at The University of Edinborough) had this to say about "The Fall of The Athenian Republic" some 2,000 years prior:
A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.

The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage.
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You've probably read this many times in low-tax/flat-tax fundraiser letters.  These words finally found traction when George Bush used them in a speech a few years ago.  Since then, the left hasn't attacked the message as its inherent truth makes it irrefutable but, instead, that Tyler didn't exist, someone else said it, Tyler was actually "Taylor" and on and on.   As if that makes any difference.  Even if it was written as a high school term paper in 1932, it is absolute true that has been proven over and over again in EVERY great democratic or even partially free civilization that has come and GONE.   Emphasis on the GONE.  Ours has now survived longer than the quoted 200-year average.  We are now on borrowed time.  
If our many enemies outside our borders and those amongst us don't destroy us first, the new religion of Environmentalism headlined by the false scare of Global Warming dragging us into the bottomless pit of one-world government will end our experiment with democracy just as surely.  We're well past that "tipping point" where the wheels become to begin to wobble then all Hell breaks loose.  Short of a decade of snowy summers, the onset of worldwide communism that didn't die but just changed names in 1990 is now only a matter of time.  Call it whatever you like.   But, in the end, it is worldwide totalitarianism.   The ultimate goal of ruthless demagogues since the beginning of time.  It was a very long and complex path but a successful one nonetheless.    The path and the means didn't matter.  It's only the end result that matters.   At best, we can now only hope to lose as slowly as possible.