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.
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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
The power to tax is the power to destroy.
What shall we destroy today?
I read this as a fight over tax credits, not new taxes per se. Am I wrong?
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
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