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Cap and Trade: A License Required for your Home (Thinking about selling your house? HA!)
Nachi ^ | 11/03/09 | Frank M. Carrio

Posted on 11/24/2009 6:06:11 PM PST by Libloather

Cap and Trade: A License Required for your Home
Frank M. Carrio, CMI
ESOP Committee Member
11/3/09, 12:29 AM

We encourage you to read the provisions of the Cap and Trade Bill that has passed the House of Representatives and being considered by the Senate. We are ready to join the next march on Washington!

This Congress and whoever on their staffs that write this junk are truly out to destroy the middle class of the USA....

A License Required for your house

Thinking about selling your house - A look at H.R. 2454 (Cap and trade bill) This is unbelievable!

Only the beginning from this administration! Home owners take note & tell your friends and relatives who are home owners!

Beginning 1 year after enactment of the Cap and Trade Act, you won't be able to sell your home unless you retrofit it to comply with the energy and water efficiency standards of this Act. H.R. 2454, the "Cap & Trade" bill passed by the House of Representatives, if also passed by the Senate, will be the largest tax increase any of us has ever experienced.

The Congressional Budget Office (supposedly non-partisan) estimates that in just a few years the average cost to every family of four will be $6,800 per year. No one is excluded.

However, once the lower classes feel the pinch in their wallets, you can be sure these voters get a tax refund (even if they pay no taxes at all) to offset this new cost. Thus, you Mr. and Mrs. Middle Class America will have to pay even more since additional tax dollars will be needed to bail out everyone else.

But wait. This awful bill (that no one in Congress has actually read) has many more surprises in it. Probably the worst one is this:

A year from now you won't be able to sell your house. Yes, you read that right.

The caveat is (there always is a caveat) that if you have enough money to make required major upgrades to your home, then you can sell it. But, if not, then forget it. Even pre-fabricated homes ("mobile homes") are included.

In effect, this bill prevents you from selling your home without the permission of the EPA administrator. To get this permission, you will have to have the energy efficiency of your home measured.

Then the government will tell you what your new energy efficiency requirement is and you will be forced to make modifications to your home under the retrofit provisions of this Act to comply with the new energy and water efficiency requirements.

Then you will have to get your home measured again and get a license (called a "label" in the Act) that must be posted on your property to show what your efficiency rating is; sort of like the Energy Star efficiency rating label on your refrigerator or air conditioner.

If you don't get a high enough rating, you can't sell. And, the EPA administrator is authorized to raise the standards every year, even above the automatic energy efficiency increases built into the Act.

The EPA administrator, appointed by the President, will run the Cap & Trade program (AKA the "American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009") and is authorized to make any future changes to the regulations and standards he alone determines to be in the government's best interest. Requirements are set low initial y so the bill will pass Congress; then the Administrator can set much tougher new standards every year.

The Act itself contains annual required increases in energy efficiency for private and commercial residences and buildings.

However, the EPA administrator can set higher standards at any time.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cap; home; license; trade
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Putting one country out of business. On the bright side - it'll turn into Kenya.
1 posted on 11/24/2009 6:06:13 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

LOCK AND LOAD!!!!!!


2 posted on 11/24/2009 6:07:19 PM PST by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein))
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To: Libloather

Americans better WTFU and see what their politicians are getting ready to nail them with.


3 posted on 11/24/2009 6:11:23 PM PST by Venturer
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To: Libloather
On the bright side - it'll turn into Kenya.

Home sweet home for Obozo.

Now I get it!

4 posted on 11/24/2009 6:12:38 PM PST by THX 1138 ("Harry, I have a gift.")
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To: Libloather

Every person that is thinking about buying a house NOW had better listen UP.
Now we know what that $8000. 1st home buyer scam was all about.
the Government was giving you *k. YOU will have NO excuse to NOT retro fit these houses on the market right now.


5 posted on 11/24/2009 6:12:38 PM PST by Marty62 (former Marty60)
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To: Venturer

Those dirty socialist/marxist bast**ds! We won’t go down easily and without uber-resistance. I can’t wait to see their faces when the inevitable happens.


6 posted on 11/24/2009 6:13:10 PM PST by hal ogen
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To: Venturer

Our congressman, Ike Skelton (D) 4th District, MO., voted for this.


7 posted on 11/24/2009 6:14:18 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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bookmark


8 posted on 11/24/2009 6:14:45 PM PST by Lorica
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To: hal ogen

So, how ‘bout I insure my home and then burn it to the ground. I get the money to rebuild it, but instead I sell the property and rebuild my house somewhere else.

How will that work?


9 posted on 11/24/2009 6:15:24 PM PST by Vermont Lt (My wife reads my posts. In case the FBI shows up, we will have cookies.)
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To: Libloather

Either they will have to impose marshal law and disarm most people who actually work for a living or they will have a violent revolution. Today, like every other day, reconfirms that they are Maoists.


10 posted on 11/24/2009 6:17:30 PM PST by JimSEA
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We are ready to join the next march on Washington!

Please consider taking a page out of a playbook written by some guy with the name of Sherman (don't remember the rest).

America -- a great idea, didn't last.

11 posted on 11/24/2009 6:18:27 PM PST by Clint Williams (Read Roto-Reuters -- we're the spinmeisters | America -- a great idea, didn't last.)
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To: Libloather

Great little scam.
And of course any upgrades or remediation will have to be done by contractors licensed $$$ and approved $$$ by the govt.


12 posted on 11/24/2009 6:19:48 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: Vaquero

It is now official.
Democrat is not a political Party.
It is a mental disorder that belongs in the DSM iv


13 posted on 11/24/2009 6:24:17 PM PST by Marty62 (former Marty60)
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To: Libloather

All those people who took that $8,000 home tax credit are SUCKERS...once you take gubmint money they own your ass


14 posted on 11/24/2009 6:25:16 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (10 YEARS OF FREEPING! HAPPY ANNIVERSARY EEE!!!)
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To: Libloather

It won’t be easy, but it does start to look like civil disobedience will be necessary if some of this stuff passes.


15 posted on 11/24/2009 6:25:49 PM PST by Williams (It's the policies, stupid)
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To: nascarnation
any upgrades or remediation will have to be done by contractors licensed $$$ and approved $$$ by the govt.

Or SEIU
16 posted on 11/24/2009 6:25:53 PM PST by Bad Jack Bauer (Fat and Bald? I was BORN fat and bald, thank you very much!)
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To: nascarnation

You forgot... “with union labor.”


17 posted on 11/24/2009 6:26:48 PM PST by ataDude (Its like 1933, mixed with the Carter 70s, plus the books 1984 and Animal Farm, all at the same time.)
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To: Libloather

If these Marxists, communists pass this bill, the resulting violence will make the first civil war seem tame. Hatred has been brewing and the backlash will be violent and bloody.


18 posted on 11/24/2009 6:27:15 PM PST by cgchief
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To: Libloather

You left out the best part.


Old Butch
—————— -———— -———— —
John was in the fertilized egg business.
He had several hundred young layers (hens), called ‘pullets,’
and ten roosters to fertilize the eggs.

He kept records, and any rooster not performing
went into the soup pot and was replaced.
This took a lot of time, so he bought some tiny bells
and attached them to his roosters.

Each bell had a different tone, so he could tell from a distance,
which rooster was performing.
Now, he could sit on the porch And fill out an efficiency report
by just listening to the bells.
John’s favorite rooster, old Butch, was a very fine specimen,
but this morning he noticed old Butch’s bell hadn’t rung at all!
When he went to investigate, he saw the other roosters were busy chasing
pullets, bells-a-ringing, but the pullets, hearing the roosters coming, could run for cover.

To John’s amazement, old Butch had his bell in his beak, so it couldn’t ring.
He’d sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one.
John was so proud of old Butch, he entered him in the Renfrew County Fair
and he became an overnight sensation among the judges.

The result was the judges not only awarded old Butch the No Bell Piece Prize
but they also awarded him the Pulletsurprise as well.

Clearly old Butch was a politician in the making.
Who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most highly coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the populace and screwing them when they weren’t paying attention.

Vote carefully next year,

the bells are not always audible.


19 posted on 11/24/2009 6:28:32 PM PST by smokingfrog (I'm from TEXAS -- what country are YOU from?)
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To: Marty62

Don’t forget the DISPOSABLE appliances! No appliances that aren’t new enough will be fixed - repairmen will get a bounty for every old appliance they declare unfixable.

This dries up the used appliance market, the appliance parts market.

Anybody guess GE has anything to do with this??? (just my opinion)


20 posted on 11/24/2009 6:29:25 PM PST by RebelTXRose
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