Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 05/26/2008 9:24:22 AM PDT by SmithL
Impatient with the glacial pace of federal regulators on greenhouse gas emissions, the Bay Area air quality district voted last week to assess fees on about 2,500 polluting businesses that they regulate.
The fees aren't large - the majority of businesses will pay less than a dollar - and they will mostly fund the district's administrative costs related to climate change, such as doing an emissions inventory for the Bay Area. But the precedent is significant: The district is the first in the nation to impose fees. Its success or failure will be a model for both the state and the nation.
Jack Broadbent, the district's executive director explained that businesses had issued a list of complaints that sound pretty familiar by now: 1) that the district's decision could be duplicative of the state's forthcoming regulations for AB32, 2) that we should all wait for a federal program, and 3) that having to comply with a "patchwork" of regulations was expensive, frustrating and inefficient. The first of these is a valid concern (Broadbent said they will re-evaluate once the state comes out with its prescriptives in June), the second is spurious, and the third, fortunately, or unfortunately, is the way it's going to have to be until there's an administration in the White House that's willing to impose the second.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
How to drive business out of your town.
How can it fail? The city says the cost of a business license is $101.00, as opposed to the $100.00 it was. Who's going to argue?
The Audacity of Incrementalism.
So these businesses can continue to pollute as long as they give kickbacks to their fascist overlords?
Not going to have to wait long.
I would bet that they have kept the fee’s low to see if anyone complains. If they don’t, they will raise them considerably over time. Anything to get more money for the politicians.
I saw an interview with a guy from a group awhile back (don’t remember what group) that did a study on the costs of McCain’s Cap and Trade legislation. They said it would cost each American family $3500 a yr or more.
The obvious response, move out and take your taxpaying employees with you.
The worldwide globull warming scam may implode in spite of the grandiose propaganda and tyranny from the leftist, watermelon, get absurdly rich, frauds. Or, maybe not.
If so, California will remain a economically depressed entitlement sewer, the bright spot being Tijuana.
The next thing you know, SF will be passing new regulations and laws making it illegal for businesses to move out of the city or even go “out of business”.
You are at least half wrong
“...the Bay Area air quality district voted last week to assess fees...”
We have here the classic “taxation without representation.”
Well, if an unelected and unaccountable bureaucracy can illegally and arbitrarily assess taxes, then, correspondingly, it should also be under the purview of citizens to throw these Marxist totalitarians out of office by whatever unaccountable and arbitrary method they might choose.
This is an example of dictatorial government anarchy without law and without constitutional restraint, overview or representation.
Companies don't pay taxes/levies/fines/surcharges/ETC, the customer does.
Well, it must be a secret because the left hasn't figured it out yet. Idiot politicans.
The beginning of the end.
The fees aren’t large (until about a year from now when they’re raised to the ceiling.)
“...(until about a year from now when they’re raised to the ceiling.)”
And when they raise those fees in about a year, you nor myself will hear a thing about it in the MSM.
I shouldn't put it past them trying insanity such as this.
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