Just two weeks ago, on November 4, 2025, Knoxville voters delivered a thunderous, YUGE rejection of Mayor Indya Kincannon’s regressive sales tax increase – a whopping 61.55% to 38.45% against raising the local option sales tax from 2.25% to 2.75%. This wasn’t a close call or a squeaker; it was a 21-point landslide repudiation of big-government, tax-and-spend policies dressed up as “infrastructure” and “affordable housing.”
The message from the people was crystal clear: No more burdening working families with higher taxes to fund progressive wish-lists!
Yet here we are, barely able to catch our breath from that electoral shellacking, and what does the Kincannon regime do? On November 12, they trot out their shiny new regional “climate action plan” called Breathe – a two-year, EPA-grant-funded scheme to slash emissions by 75% by 2050, involving Knoxville, Maryville, Oak Ridge, Alcoa, and a parade of over 50 organizations dreaming of electric everything, green mandates, and net-zero fantasies.
Did they not get the memo? Knoxville voters just said a resounding NO to the socialist-leaning agenda that prioritizes virtue-signaling over pocketbooks. This “Breathe” plan isn’t about cleaner air (we already have improving air quality thanks to market-driven tech and natural gas). It’s the same tired playbook: more government control, higher energy costs, forced transitions that hit the poor and middle class hardest – all while China laughs and builds coal plants faster than we can say “hypocrisy.”
And perfect timing: just yesterday (November 17), the brilliant Victor Davis Hanson dropped this bombshell column that exposes the crumbling facade of the entire climate change racket.
Hanson nails it: the alarmism is collapsing under its own weight. Skyrocketing energy costs from green mandates, China’s unchecked emissions, Europe’s backpedaling from nuclear shutdowns, even Bill Gates admitting we need cheap energy for AI – reality is smashing the narrative.
Yet Knoxville’s elite march on, funded by federal grants (your tax dollars!), pushing plans that will jack up utility bills, mandate expensive EVs no one can afford, and choke economic growth in a region that runs on reliable, affordable energy.
#TheMegaBullhornofTruth readers see right through it: This isn’t about the climate. It’s about control.
Voters spoke loudly on November 4. Will Mayor Kincannon and her crew finally listen – or keep ramming their out-of-touch agenda down our throats?
Stay vigilant, Knoxville. The fight for fiscal sanity and real freedom is far from over.
Knoxville’s Presser ⤵️
AREA LEADERS COME TOGETHER TO LAUNCH THE REGION’S FIRST COMPREHENSIVE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN
Area leaders came together Wednesday to unveil a plan to improve air quality, health, and quality of life outcomes. Breathe: A Climate Action Plan for the Knoxville Region is the result of 2 years of collaboration, and is the region’s first comprehensive climate action plan.
The City collaborated with regional leaders and a working group of representatives from over 50 organizations across nine counties to help shape the plan’s goals and strategies, ensuring they reflect the region’s priorities and constraints.
Regional and local officials, including Mayor Indya Kincannon, along with the working group members attended a launch event on November 12 to celebrate the completion of the plan, which sets greenhouse gas emission reduction targets of 40 percent by 2035, and 75 percent by 2050, relative to 2022 emissions.
To reach these targets, the plan outlines a collection of strategies, such as increasing energy efficiency and weatherization of residential, commercial, and industrial buildings; transitioning to electric and alternative fuel vehicles in public fleets; and accelerating the deployment of clean and distributed energy. Those strategies are organized by the following sectors: buildings, transportation, energy, waste, natural and working lands, and agriculture.
The plan also provides analysis of workforce development needed to implement these strategies. While the strategies outlined within the plan address community scale solutions, additional resources were developed during the planning process that support individual actions.
Individuals can make personal climate pledges and find resources to help achieve them on the project website. The plan and all related materials, pledge, and list of resources can be found here.
What say you? Is “Breathe” just another tax-funded boondoggle? Sound off below and share this far and wide! #NoMoreTaxes #ClimateHoaxExposed #KnoxvilleAwake #MegaBullhornofTruth
