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Senator assails solar industry-(Tax for Solar)
sign on sandiego ^ | 6/14/08 | na

Posted on 06/15/2008 6:24:28 AM PDT by Flavius

Breaking with an industry that is growing in importance in Nevada, Sen. John Ensign is griping about a solar power lobbying campaign aimed at extending alternative energy tax credits.

Ensign, R-Nev., said an effort to pressure him on the tax breaks has had the opposite effect of “personally alienating” him and other senators. In a letter to Solar Energy Industry Association members, he said lobbyists criticized a strategy that included a statement suggesting he favored “billionaire hedge fund managers” over job creation in Nevada.

(Excerpt) Read more at signonsandiego.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: energy; solar; tax
ahh its always about that magical free money coming from the resilient US Consumer

so we can pay high prices at the pump and still get taxed for the solar schemes

how cool is all that, taxes are great


1 posted on 06/15/2008 6:24:29 AM PDT by Flavius
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To: Flavius

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

What shall we destroy today?


2 posted on 06/15/2008 6:42:08 AM PDT by null and void (Bureaucracies are stupid. They grow larger by the square of their age and stupider by its cube.)
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To: Flavius

I read this as a fight over tax credits, not new taxes per se. Am I wrong?


3 posted on 06/15/2008 6:52:03 AM PDT by Loud Mime (Free the Refineries! - H.R. 2279 Must Become Law!)
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To: Loud Mime

well i work for electrical co

we get money from taxpayers to build these gawk awful windmills

and they make no money unless they are subsidized by taxes

so you tell me


4 posted on 06/15/2008 6:58:39 AM PDT by Flavius (war gives peace its security)
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