Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 03/31/2009 1:49:04 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – The Senate has endorsed using revenues from controversial cap-and-trade auctions of permits for emitting greenhouse gases to help consumers pay higher gasoline and electricity prices.
The 54-43 vote Tuesday is nonbinding.
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energy welfare.
nice.
those prices will soon be made to skyrocket and the leftist-’approved’ will be subsidiesed AGAIN
Genius!
Tax increase, money laundering and securities fraud all rolled into one.
What if they gave an auction and nobody came?
So let me get this straight, we want to force energy companies to not emit carbon by making it expensive for them to do so, thereby raising the price of their product and reducing consumption. Then we will give government checks to the utility’s customers bringing the price of the energy back down by subsidizing the cost of the energy produced, thereby eliminating any incentive to emit less carbon.
I mean the whole AGW thing is a hoax, but how can you both penalize and subsidize something at the same time.
Government doesn’t make sense. period. Don’t they still subsidies tobacco?
So let me get this straight,
They’re taking $ away from energy companies and then giving that $ to customers so that they can pay it to energy companies. Wow, guys.
Lol, I was trying to ‘get it straight’ at the same time as you.
So, I can pay 3 times what I do now, and allow the 'privileged leaders' to skim their share off the top of the auctions.
Then, they can "return" a portion of the artiicially inflated prices back to me, with another layer of bureaucrats paid to admiinister it, and allowing another chance at skimming.
Then (just wait; if health benefits are taxed...) I can add the 'rebate' to my income, and pay it all back to the government as taxes!
BRILLIANT!
You can bet that YOU will not be one of those customers!
Only minorities and hardcore unemployables will get subsidies, meanwhile average joe working guys will AGAIN get the freakin shaft. UGH. Bastards!
BATF & Ag Dept have been doing it for years, with tobacco.
I will be attending the convention in Virginia in May. These A-Holes will be getting an ear full!
May will be to late. We need to put pressure on our politicians now.
The last thing we need is a new tax revenue stream for our government.
At one time Income tax was only going tax the rich. Now it applies to everyone.
At one time the AMT code was to make sure the rich paid 33% income tax rate. Now more and more middle income earners creep into the 33% rate.
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