Posted on 10/16/2009 6:27:55 AM PDT by Wolf13
In case news of the dramatic costs to you and your family in the healthcare “reform” proposals circulating through Congress hasn’t scared you enough, another unprecedented tax lurks under the radar. It will punish you every time you flip on a light switch or start your car.
In June, the House of Representatives narrowly passed the Waxman-Markey energy bill, which aims to increase investment in renewable energy and slash carbon emissions by 17 percent by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050. In early October Senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer unveiled the Senate’s version of the bill. It is even more ambitious, with a goal of cutting emissions by 20 percent by 2020. Last week, South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham broke ranks to support the bill, a move some called a “game changer.”
But as many as 15 Senate Democrats either oppose the bill or are on the fence. Just four or five defections could kill the bill. As the Senate deliberates, you should call your senators with one or more of the Top 10 Reasons to oppose this punishing new tax.
1) IT’S NOT GETTING HOTTER: Five major international climate centers recently reported that average global temperatures have not risen over the past 11 years. In fact, experts say, temperatures actually dipped in eight of the last 11 years. Some scientists now predict that global cooling could continue for another 10 to 20 years.
2) IT’S BAD SCIENCE: A British judge recently ruled that teachers in Great Britain’s school system will be required to issue a warning before they show students An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore’s controversial film on global warming. Gore’s film presents the theory of man-made global warming as fact. But hundreds of scientists have publicly opposed that theory.
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Carbon Cap Tax & Scam Ping ~ (POGW)
EVERYTHING will then be made in China, as energy costs and carbon penalties close down American jobs. Even farmers with farting cows will be driven out of business. Would you trust Chinese beef? Probably fed old circuit boards. Get ready to wear a sweater in winter, just like Jimmy Carter said. It’s going to be a cold, dark winter in America.
Cap'n Trade says: "Yarrrgh! Prepare for yer' economy to be boarded... up!"
They want your money.
Great job by Bauer.
It’s a tax to assist in funding more govt. spending.
At its core the scheme simply taxes production.
It taxes production.
It taxes production.
It taxes production.
There, now I’ve had my rant.
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