House Begins 'Cap and Trade' Hearings

HumanEvents.com ^ | 4/22/2009 | Connie Hair

[tobyhill]

“According to a study by MIT, the average American household will be facing $3,128 in additional utility costs per year,”

Get ready, the destruction of America is in full force.

[LasVegasMac]

Time to get your Rep’s attention.

[WHBates]

For sure we will lose that many jobs but where exactly will the two million jobs come from and how much would they pay compared to the jobs lost? What morons!

[Sarajevo]

Oh no! They can KMA with this cap an trade BS. It’s time to bust the gonads of some state reps again.

[angkor]

A new source of fiat money.

Monetizing the air.

The air becomes a fungible commodity to be sold by governments and insiders (e.g. Al Gore).

However you want to put it, that’s what it is.

[Kansas58]

How about we get someone in Congress to propose a TAX!

A TAX on NEWSPRINT!

Whereas the production of newspapers causes trees to be cut down, hauled by polluting trucks to polluting paper mills, and hauled from paper mills to publishers and

Whereas the production of newspapers requires toxic ink and solvents and energy wasting machinery and

Whereas the distribution of newspapers requires the use of dirty internal combustion engines and

Whereas a large portion of every landfill is used for discarded newspapers,

Therefore:

Be it resolved that a Newsprint tax, of $1,000.00 per pound, be charged to EVERY newspaper with a daily subscription, within the United States!
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We should get some Republican to propose THIS as an amendment to any “cap and trade” or “carbon tax” proposal that comes up!
Maybe we can make it like “Cap and Trade” and use the revenue generated, from this tax on dirty dinosaur newspapers, to subsidize a tax credit for home computers and digital devices?
Or, we could use the money to subsidize talk radio! Well, those guys really don’t need any help!

[swarthyguy]

Waxman-Markey

Kinda like the Jason and Krueger of contemporary America.

[Kansas58]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2216318/posts

An old idea of mine, a book about a protest against the greens.

I think we should burn tires, since NASA claims that pollution actually LOWERS the Earth’s temperature!

[snowrip]

bttt

[bray]

The gummit has figured out how to tax Air.

Pray for America and Our Troops

[CottonBall]

Pence told me in reaction to the video, “We don’t believe that a draconian national energy tax dropped on top of a coal-burning industry principally that -- according to the President of the United States last year -- will cause utility rates to ‘skyrocket’ is the right approach. … Since we arrived on Capitol Hill we’ve heard a lot of good things about working together and what we have seen is the opposite. What we have seen is closed rules, limited amendments, last minute introduction; we’ve seen massive, hundreds of billions of dollars of legislation that’s been brought to the floor -- twelve hours to review it, twenty-four hours to review it. Our concern would be that the American people are entitled to count the cost of this cap and trade legislation and not wait until the day before the bill comes out of committee and goes to the floor and passes to be told what it will cost.”

How frustrating for the good guys (I do think there are a few left).

Unfortunately, the American people don't seem to care. Or remember that we even have a Constitution or what it stands for.

[CottonBall]

“According to a study by MIT, the average American household will be facing $3,128 in additional utility costs per year,”

But the average and less than average American household won't pay one penny, IMO. Those that work the hardest will be subsidizing the rest (yet again).

[combat_boots]

that’s a great graphic. It also makes me ill.

“the average American household will be facing $3,128 in additional utility costs per year,” Pence said. “I should add that’s an average.”

Who can afford an extra $3,128 in addition to higher taxes, fees, gasoline costs, national health care, and other tripe?

Billions and trillions and not a $20 for most of us. We get $8/week this year.

[Snoopers-868th]

If they don’t stop these ridiculous proposals our military will need to come back home to defend them. You can be sure it won’t be to defend us.

[GSWarrior]

Our government has to act now and pass this cap and trade legislation before people find out we don’t need it.

[HonestConservative]

Obama wants a revolution. He’s going to push until he gets it, so he can declare Marshall law and blame it on the economy.

[LauraJean]

I think Obama would send in UN troops to enforce his edicts.

[SuziQ]

The Republicans should be arguing that this is nothing but a power and revenue grab, by the Federal Govt. Even though CO2 has risen over the last 7 years, Global Temperatures have NOT increased during that time. That’s the opposite of what the AGW folks keep trying to foist on the public. Their argument is that the more CO2 goes into the air the warmer the planet becomes, and that’s demostrably WRONG!