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CLEAR Act Billions in New Taxes, Takeover of State Authority on Permits, $500M a Year to Ken Salazar
Maggie's Notebook ^ | August 1, 2010 | Maggie M. Thornton

Posted on 08/01/2010 11:16:34 AM PDT by maggiesnotebook

Pelosi's CLEAR Act adds billions in new taxes, a federal takeover of a state's authority to issue pertinent permits within their state, and builds a $500 million annually, slush fund for the Interior Secretary. That slush fund is provided by $22 billion in new taxes over ten years, which settles at $3 billion-per-year after the ten years. The vote is expected Friday.

Pelosi has also refused to allow an independent, bipartisan investigation into the BP oil spill - and according to sources this move is to protect Obama.

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: clearact; newtaxes; statesovereignty

1 posted on 08/01/2010 11:16:41 AM PDT by maggiesnotebook
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To: maggiesnotebook
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Why?

2 posted on 08/01/2010 12:09:15 PM PDT by humblegunner (Pablo is very wily)
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To: maggiesnotebook

Well, there goes the state-issued fishing licenses! I wonder what that is going to do to the wetlands migratory-bird hunting licenses, too?


3 posted on 08/01/2010 1:19:43 PM PDT by Prussianone
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To: Prussianone

Good question, and it appears the States don’t have a clue this is coming.


4 posted on 08/01/2010 4:10:03 PM PDT by maggiesnotebook
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