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Why Are Republicans Resurrecting Uber-Failed Green Energy Subsidies?
Human Events ^ | 07/21/2015 | Seton Motley

Posted on 07/21/2015 10:24:50 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Thank goodness we last November gave the Republicans the Senate majority.

Who besides the GOP would resurrect government money for ridiculous “green” “energy” – which is neither green nor energy? To the tune of tens (if not hundreds) of billions of dollars more down the juice-less rat hole.

Oh yeah – every Democrat on the planet.

Senate May Revive Expired Green Energy Tax Subsidies

The Senate finance committee will be holding a markup hearing on expired tax subsidies members want to be revived for their constituents and campaign supporters, and this includes now defunct subsidies for green energy.

A document released by the Joint Committee on Taxation last week details dozens of expired tax credits, including a number green energy tax credits for things like wind energy production, making biofuels and using electric vehicles….

Democrats and Republicans seem to be working together to retroactively hand out tax credits to green energy producers.

So not only will the Republicans resume the government money going forward – they’ll make good on the briefest of lapses we just thoroughly enjoyed.

Why is the only time there is bipartisanship in Washington – when both Parties are picking our pockets and then ridiculously wasting what they pilfer?

Meanwhile, the Barack Obama Administration is – at least internationally – working on delivering us Less Government.

(World Trade Organization) WTO Negotiators Agree to Tariff Cuts on More IT Products

Hey Senate Republicans: When the Obama Administration is actually reducing government – while you’re growing it – just how far from the path have you strayed?

World trade negotiators seeking to eliminate tariffs on information technology (IT) products agreed over the weekend to expand the list of items covered.

Participants said the 54 nations had struck a tentative deal to expand to about 200 the IT products on which tariffs would be dropped. The list had an annual trade value of some $1 trillion, the World Trade Organization said late on Saturday.

Who knew the WTO could actually serve a useful purpose – rather than only really well prepared lobster and prime rib?

This is actually a great way to get rid of a whole lot of domestic government – by negotiating away mirror international government.

If foreign governments are engaged in stupid policies that impact us – and with today’s global markets for…just about everything, just about all of them impact us – getting rid of theirs makes it easier to get rid of ours.

It certainly makes ours even less justifiable.

Europe a Green-Energy Basket Case

Instead of a model to emulate, Europe has become a model of what not to do.

Europe’s Green Energy Industry Faces Collapse As Subsidies Are Cut

European countries are cutting back their solar subsidies to rein in energy costs and cut debt.

We have high energy costs – and HUGE debt. Why are we bringing back the non-green non-energy subsidies Europe is so rightly ending?

We should be doing what the President is doing – working with the world to shrink all our governments. And here’s another perfect way to do it:

(O)ur Farm Bill – which warps our market – has warped the world’s as well….Other produce-producing nations saw our lattice-work panoply of tariffs and subsidies – and felt compelled to match them. And then exceed them.

Round and round we go. Myriad nations outdo our government interference in the marketplace – so we outdo theirs. Lather, rinse, repeat. So what we now have is a global lattice-work panoply of tariffs and subsidies. A thicket that grows ever thicker – as each next government tries to outdo the last.

The President should do what he just did with IT products – with farm products (and many, many others).

And Republicans should absolutely not bring back from the heinous-policy-grave the ridiculous “green” “energy” subsidies they so wisely, so recently let lapse.

We’ll close with something we thought we’d likely never say:

Hey Republicans: Watch what President Obama and Europe are doing – and emulate it.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: energy; europeanunion; globalwarminghoax; humanevents; methane; nato; opec; petroleum; popefrancis; romancatholicism; setonmotley; tisa; tpa; tpp; uniparty; waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah; wikileaks

1 posted on 07/21/2015 10:24:50 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Because they are democrats.


2 posted on 07/21/2015 10:25:39 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That’s why they’re the stupid party. I’m through with them.


3 posted on 07/21/2015 10:26:04 AM PDT by beethovenfan (Islam is a cancer on civilization.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Because mney. Someone, a lot of someones probably, in the GOP, is making money from them. Just like their reasons for amnesty-they may lose political power forever, but the ones there now will make money.


4 posted on 07/21/2015 10:27:56 AM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: DannyTN

Exactly.

It is the #uniparty.


5 posted on 07/21/2015 10:28:09 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Because Boehner is already invested; just like
ObamaCARE and ObamaTRADE.

They ALL should be indicted and recalled.


6 posted on 07/21/2015 10:28:52 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They are paid whores. They are sucking up Lobbyist monies and thumbing their noses.

Remember their names. They will be accountable.


7 posted on 07/21/2015 10:29:20 AM PDT by hadaclueonce (It is not heaven, it is Iowa. Everyone gets a "Corn Check")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$...............................


8 posted on 07/21/2015 10:32:13 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

People like them.


9 posted on 07/21/2015 10:32:15 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

...and people continue to wonder why so many people prefer Donald Trump to any Republican. I mean, it’s not like they haven’t poked us in the eye with a sharp stick every damned time we’ve voted for them since Reagan left office!!!


10 posted on 07/21/2015 10:32:48 AM PDT by pgkdan (But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Because the leviathan of huge, interventionist government funded by printed money, fake interest rates and unlimited debt can not be resisted.


11 posted on 07/21/2015 10:33:44 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: cuban leaf

I think I’ll ask for a grant to study the effects of pixie dust on the recharge rate of Lithium-Boron-Einsteinium-Radium-Aluminum batteries....................


12 posted on 07/21/2015 10:34:57 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: DannyTN
Yep. There's only one type of politician in DC these days.

Totalitarianism is a political system in which the state holds total control over the society and seeks to control all aspects of public and private life wherever possible.

Wake up America.

13 posted on 07/21/2015 10:35:25 AM PDT by skeeter ( THAT)
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To: Red Badger

I think I’ll ask for a grant to study the effects of pixie dust on the recharge rate of Lithium-Boron-Einsteinium-Radium-Aluminum batteries....


Too late. That one’s mine. :-)


14 posted on 07/21/2015 10:40:18 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: cuban leaf
They give billions more to the Canadian owner of Telsa who sells 100 K cars for the middle class?
15 posted on 07/21/2015 10:45:38 AM PDT by scooby321
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To: DannyTN
Because they are democrats.

Exactly.

16 posted on 07/21/2015 10:46:53 AM PDT by dragonblustar (Philippians 2:10)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Green energy? You mean like nuclear plants and hydroelectric? That’s a great idea.


17 posted on 07/21/2015 10:53:00 AM PDT by JimSEA
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To: cuban leaf

You’re studying LiBERALs too?.............................


18 posted on 07/21/2015 10:55:37 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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