Since when did a tax do anything to repair the climate?
Ping for the gardening and farming thread!
The amusing thing is that farmers will do one of two things. First, they will simply play by the rules and demand the increase be passed along to consumers, which might or might not happen. Second, they could decide that none of this is worth the effort, and just sit on the land for a year with no crop production...collecting welfare. The nation would end up buying a high amount of its produce...from outside the US, from nations who didn’t play the cap and trade game.
My dad was a part-time farmer with 120 acres of crop land at one point. He got into some government deal where they actually paid him to grow nothing for an entire year....collecting 75 percent of what he would have made anyway. After a year of this....he thought the whole thing was a joke and went back to real production. I’m guessing alot of farmers might go for the program...and see how far the nation can go.
Oh, and you should note here...from the farming belt of the US...a number of Senators are democrat, if you haven’t noticed. I’m already guessing that cap-and-trade will dissolve away real quick when they figure out the cost to farmers in their states.
I am beginning to think the whole motive behind this is to starve and freeze out the Great Unwashed.
Obama lied, America died!
All the useful idiots who voted for Obama thought that he would raise taxes on the “rich guys ‘n gals” are finding out the ugly truth: He is going to raise everybody’s taxes!
First the school system dumbs us down so much that we fall for an algore "global warming/carbon is killing us all" scam and then encourage them to them take our money to "fix" it.
Without a decent education and the will to use it, we humans are a bunch of dumb, emotional herd animals...lemmings in search of a cliff.
How will liberal members of Congress from farm states like ultra liberal Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) react to these moves by the Obama administration? Will they drink the global warming kool-aid and pass cap and trade which will also affect agriculture? It would seem they will have a lot to explain to voters before the next election.
Where did the EPA get the authority to levy taxes?