Posted on 05/16/2009 2:15:41 PM PDT by pleikumud
The Obama administration itself estimates that cap and trade will involve increased costs from 2012 to 2019 alone of $645 billion, and admits in its own budget that the actual costs could be much higher than that, depending on permit prices over those years. Indeed, other estimates put the costs three times higher. So the increased burden on each Ameri can over this period alone would be $2,100 to $6,300. For a family with two children, that would be $8,400 to $25,200, with much more to come after 2019. These increased costs are effectively a new tax on the American people, even though Obama promised in his campaign that there would be no tax increase for the bottom 95 percent of income earners.
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I prefer the term Cheatem and Steal.
” Obama promised in his campaign that there would be no tax increase for the bottom 95 percent of income earners.”
NOT ONE DIME..the Messiah said...
What? Transition from "shovel-ready" to "pitchfork ready"?
lol. So let it be written. So let it be done.
This is the idea that we are going to go into a post industrial socialist phase. Liberals believe in industrial disarmament the same way they believe in all of us giving up our guns. The elites however, will continue to live high on the hog. Air conditioning is for them, just not us peasants.
I should greatly like to see that, but who's going to risk their family's lives and well being, walk away from careers, jobs and businesses built over decades to do that?
Remember that the founding fathers were the ELITE in society. Sure, they had the most to lose, but they also weren't "just getting by". At a 6 digit salary with a family to support, it feels like "just getting by" these days.
That doesn't leave a great amount of the populace that can pick up and march on DC in protest at the drop of the dime, and most of us will probably get distracted and go after the dime.
Sorry, but I've been thinking about what this would take. It would require something so life-altering that each an every American would find themselves looking at the precipice before they'd step up any further than verbal complaint.
Do you suppose the White House A/C is set on 72 or 80?
well said
Liberals and RINOS. Heres what Senator Mel Martinez (RINO-FL) wrote in response to my letter:
I believe that the threat of climate change is real, and I am working with my colleagues in the Senate to regulate and reduce greenhouse emissions. As we consider climate change legislation, we need to ensure that the laws we pass will in fact reduce carbon emissions and lessen the threat of catastrophic climate change.
This so-called Republican senator is kissing Obamas butt.
“He can impoverish it, but he cant destroy it in less than one generation. An impoverished middle class is likely to be very angry....”
...which is why he wants us all disarmed...
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