Remix2Cognition

Governor Gary Johnson & Governor Bill Weld,

Currently, you are the only Presidential Candidates (of the top four) that support the trade agreement known as the TPP. Can you help us to understand why you support it? What specific parts of it do you think are beneficial? What parts of it do you think are misrepresented by its’ opponents? What valid concerns do you think exist, but aren’t worthy of stopping it from being passed? What specifically would you need to discover about it for you to potentially oppose it?

Governor Gary Johnson,

Can you clarify your position on a potential Carbon Tax?

In a discussion with CNBC journalist, John Harwood, you stated…

“I do think that climate change is occurring, that it is man-caused. One of the proposals that I think is a very libertarian proposal, and I'm just open to this, is taxing carbon emission that may have the result of being self-regulating.”

This was mistakenly portrayed by the media and many others that you support a Carbon Tax, even though you simply stated your openness to it and the potential benefits of it. It did, however, also add much uncertainty in people’s minds about where you actually stand on the issue and for those that have strong feelings about a Carbon Tax (as with any issue), they favor concrete answers.

A few days later, you attempted to clarify your position during a rally in New Hampshire when you stated…

”If any of you heard me say I support a carbon tax...Look, I haven't raised a penny of taxes in my political career and neither has Bill [Weld]. We were looking at—I was looking at—what I heard was a carbon fee which from a free-market standpoint would actually address the issue and cost less. I have determined that, you know what, it's a great theory but I don't think it can work, and I've worked my way through that.”

So my question is this, WHY have you come to that conclusion? Can you work the rest of us through your findings of why it can’t work?