[Le Chien Rouge]

It is called cap and trade. Companies that produce carbon will have to buy credits that will be passed on to the consumer. Basically this time next year if it passes, natural gas will double in price and coal produced electric which is about 70% of our electric will triple in price. Everything that travels to the store by truck will have the added on tax of cap and trade. Yes it is a hoax and will put most of us unable to afford the basicas anymore.

——perhaps this is part of the plan———

the “Cloward-Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.

[Carling]

The difference is that in the past the strong socialist takeovers have also needed a military force to quell uprisings. Obama won't have that. Once energy costs start exponentially rising, many voters who view him as a curiosity (or vehicle of positive change) will turn on him, and I imagine he won't have had the time to consolidate his power enough to stop a political or military coup. The democrats in the Senate are already usurping his wishes by seating Burris. Obama is little more than bells and whistles; if things really start to go south, he doesn't have the popular or political support needed to destroy our system of government.

[Thunder90]

Waxman wants a combined system of carbon taxes AND cap and trade schemes, so the Government can get the maximum tax revenue from it.