Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 07/06/2009 5:33:08 AM PDT by fiscon1
Nancy Pelosi has repeatedly stated that Cap and Trade will be a priority for the 111th Congress. Embraced some years ago in Europe and a few other countries, cap and trade creates an artificial market for various industries to buy, sell, and trade allowances that permit a certain amount of carbon output. It has long been on the wish list for American liberals and extremist environmentalists. And with Democrats now in control of Congress and the White House, you can bet they will soon engage an all effort to enact cap and trade. In fact, in the 2010 White House budget, President Barack Obama calls for a sweeping cap and trade program that would raise $646 billion in new revenues. Here are FreedomWorks’ Top 10 reasons why they shouldn’t…
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I can not understand how anyone in Congress can be so STUPID as to vote for this government tax grab!
Reason #1: if Obama and the RATs want it, it has to be harmful!
Condense this to items 1,2 and 9 and you’ve got the whole deal in a nutshell.
Top Ten lists are catchy, but the eyes glaze over after about 150 words.
Follow the liberal playbook.
Cap & Trade was done before with “Sulfur Emission Credits” being traded to companies who polute by companies who don’t. It was all controlled by companies like Enron.
It was then and is now still just a scam perpetrated by snake oil salesmen in business suit.
Because it's cloaked in do-goodism, i.e., "saving the planet." Only its authors and their leftist accomplices know its real intent.
Two kinds of Congressmen voted for it: the terminally stupid and the terminally evil.
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