Posted on 06/09/2008 5:42:18 AM PDT by Dukes Travels
This week, the Senate opened debate on the most massive tax increase in history and a government takeover of private industry that makes Roosevelt's New Deal look tiny by comparison. The sheer chutzpah it takes to even offer such a thing is breathtaking, matched only by how frightened we all should be by the sheer economic destruction it would inevitably cause and the loss of freedom to which it would directly lead.
I am speaking, of course, of the ever-so-benign-sounding “cap and trade” bill. This bill would criminalize the normal energy usage and that goes with a prosperous economy and the needs of daily first-world life. It would steadily reduce, over a period of several years, the total amount of carbon emissions permitted, but auction off “allowances” to the tune of $3.32 trillion to businesses of Congress' choosing. (Hmm, going to your local congressman or senator to purchase exemption from a tyrannical law. Gee, that doesn't sound rife for bribery, graft and corruption at all . . .)
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Slavery is freedom.
Global Warming Activists’ greatest achievement will put our economy in ruin.
The time for a huge shrug seems to be getting closer all the time.
I was wondering where in the US Constitution the federal government was given the authority to wage war on the climate, but I think I found it in Article F, Section U, Subsection C, Paragraph K, sentences Y, O, and U.
“Can and Trade”???? It is more like the “Cap and Screw”.
Can ==== Cap.....
(Any excuse to raise taxes and screw the ecomony.)
The coming depression will be blamed on a failure of capitalism. That it’s so predictable makes it so infuriating.
Methinks these deluded liberals are jousting at moving windmills.
The ability of the American technological invention will always prevail over the ever-present , and oppressive government bureaucrat.
The so-called carbon tax, or cap and trade phenomenon will pass into oblivion as the political embarrassment that it is and always will be. However, we may have to endure the indignity of political, “carbon” folly for the foreseeable, hopefully, short future.
The left hates the big gap in money between the USA and the third world. They will do everything they can to close the gap.
Unfortunately they want to close the gap by making the USA poor, not by making other countries rich.
Cap and trade will make us poor.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Agreed... blame the machine instead of the people operating it. Or the gun... or the schools... or the homes...
I don't think that's a law of the universe. It stopped working in the 1930s when FDR's New Deal took total control of the economy. A typical recession was deepened and extended for a decade. Business couldn't "fix" the economy in that instance. What about monetary inflation? There are a lot of givens that business nees to remain in business. I am not convinced the dems know enough not to break them.
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