Here is my latest column at American Issues Project:
Dem’s Cap and Trade Bill Is a 3.6 Trillion Dollar Gas Tax Too
Democrats know their cap and trade energy legislation will cripple the US economy. Barack Obama admitted this on the campaign trail in 2008 saying the program “would cause energy prices to skyrocket.” Obama also promised an audience of supporters that cap and trade would bankrupt the coal industry. White House Budget Director Peter Orszag told George Stephanopoulos in a March 2009 interview that Obama’s proposed cap and trade energy legislation would increase energy costs for everyone. Democratic Congressman John Dingell (D-MI) summed up cap and trade at a Congressional hearing on April 24th saying, “It’s a Great Big Tax.”
Cap and trade policies will likely cost Americans $700 to $1,400 dollars per family per year. The Department of Energy estimated GDP losses would be between $444 billion and $1.308 trillion over the 21-year period. Cap and trade also could cost the US 4 million jobs.
But that’s not all. Cap and trade would also mean a massive new national gas tax on American families and American business. Cap and trade legislation will drive up the prices of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. Higher fuel costs will feel like a new gas tax that will hit consumers at every income level, in every state, in every field of transportation and manufacturing.
Senators Kit Bond (R-MO) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) released a report this week on the massive new national gas tax on American families and businesses as a result of the Waxman-Markey cap and trade legislation…
You can read the rest on the democrat’s $3.6 trillion gas tax here. There is also a list of my recent columns on this page.
The US Senate starts deliberating on the democrat’s junk science tax today in committee.
UPDATE: Sarah Palin wrote about America’s energy future today and asked, “Petroleum is a major part of America’s energy picture. Shall we get it here or abroad?”
OT…This was in my email from my local Tea Party:
The Health Reform legislation is moving fast, Reid and Pelosi do not believe the polls about most Americans do NOT want a government run program with or without the public “option”. I’ve emailed Senator Reid and Speaker Pelosi, the below comment. You are free to copy and paste if you desire.
http://reid.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm
“Here is a poll from two Americans, I am totally against a Government run Health Care Program.
A few simple reforms could do a lot to bring down costs instead of the Government taking over 18% of our economy, such as:
-Medical liability reform.
-Let families and businesses buy insurance across state lines, provide real choice and competition to lower the cost of health insurance.
-Access to coverage, regardless of preexisting conditions.
-Individuals, small businesses and other groups should be able to join together to get health insurance at lower prices, the same way large businesses and labor unions do.
-Offer incentives for wellness care and prevention.”
Joanne
October 27th, 2009 | 1:14 pm | #7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VebOTc-7shU&feature=player_embedded
This is a must see movie – don’t miss it – the Fall of the Republic.
Sasja
October 27th, 2009 | 2:26 pm | #14
I suppose the dependent class of this nation don’t worry about paying their utility bills because they think there will be enough money in ‘Obama’s stash’ to take care of it for them. There are going to be some long, dark, cold nights for those folks if this gets passed. I, too, can do with a tankful of gas a month.
And you can make book that it will cost much more to the American family than the projected $700 to $1,400 a year.
bg
October 27th, 2009 | 3:26 pm | #20
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re: Joanne @1:14 pm #7
i’m believing it more & more.. as i’ve been saying for months now.. Obama
was chosen to be the “transitionalist”, there seems to be no other rationale
to explain the enigma that is Obama..
posted the following in a previous thread..
they are “organizing” a Global UN Force..
“citizens in uniform”
[The armed forces, therefore, according to the decree issued by Chávez last July 22nd, in the practice will be responsible for enforcing by means of arms the failed socialist constitutional reform. To that end, in order to dilute the country into its militia-like organization, will "prepare and organize the people for integral defense." In addition, it will "forge alliances or coalitions with the armed forces of foreign countries." The ongoing military revolution will have not borders. At the end, there is one single purpose -retired military officer Chávez Frías will boast his five-sun insignia appropriate for his new rank of commander in chief, awarded by himself, and not by the grace of God.]
Obama’s ‘Civilian Security Force’
[Advocates of limited government are concerned about comments by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) regarding his national service plans and views on the "burden of global citizenship."]
Senator Obama, Citizen of the World
[European socialists and Middle Eastern Muslims are wildly enthusiastic about Senator Obama, because he styles himself a citizen of the world who, like all liberal- progressive- socialists, aims for world government.
American liberal- progressive- socialism, in the person of Senator Obama, is a carbon copy of European socialism, and Islamic jihadists recognize that socialism offers no opposition to their ruthless jihad to enslave the entire world.
For historical perspective, let's look to one of France's leading socialist theoreticians, the late Jean- François Revel. As I wrote at the time of M. Revel's death in May, 2006:
Jean- François Revel, who died last week at the age of 82, was that exceedingly rare person: a French intellectual who didn't despise the United States, an intellectual who understood the cancerous prognosis of liberalism.
Revel's 1983 "How Democracies Perish" described liberalism's debilitating effect on confronting the threat of domination by the Soviet Union. His observations apply equally today in our long-term struggle against Islamic jihad.]
As President Obama dithers and waffles October became the deadliest month for the US in the Afghan War.
(ICasualties)
The average monthly US deaths in Afghanistan have nearly quadrupled since Barack Obama took over in January.
Barney Frank admitted in a recent interview with Ralph Nader that democrats are, “trying on every front to increase the role of government.”
No kidding.
Via NewsBusters
How’s that working out for you, Barney?
Record unemployment–
The US unemployment rate rose from 7.6% to 9.8% under Obama… the highest rate in 26 years.
Bureau of Labor Statistics- via Sweetness and Light
Obama said with the Stimulus Bill the unemployment rate would not go over 8% but the unemployment rate is currently at 9.7%.
Record Deficits–
Democrats tripled the national deficit in about 9 months.
Obama promised 2,500,000 million jobs…
But so far his record “stimulus” package has only created 30,083.