In Friday’s Washington Post, Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Beverly Hills) and Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts) pitched cap-and-trade as a means to balance the budget. According to the Congressmen,
“The debate over how to reduce our nation’s debt has been presented as a dilemma between cutting spending on programs Americans cherish or raising taxes on American job creators. But there is a better way: We could slash our debt by making power plants and oil refineries pay for the carbon emissions that endanger our health and environment.”
This statement is absurd. By design, a cap-and-trade policy makes conventional energy more expensive. It is, therefore, functionally equivalent to a tax on a commodity—energy—that is fundamental to every act of economic production. It’s an economy wide tax. In effect, Reps. Waxman and Markey are claiming that a broad consumption tax (cap-and-trade) avoids “the difficult dilemma” of raising taxes, which doesn’t make any sense. Fortunately, these two Congressmen are in the minority party in the House, so their policy idea is a non-starter.
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If Moe and Smoe here (names are interchangeable between the two, they both answer to either name) make it back to the majority it will be time to become VERY AFRAID! Don’t forget the fact that the term “dumb and dumber” was created for this pair. However, when you look over to the Senate you can scare the pants off yourself much faster if you hear Al Franken-stein talk about global warming/climate change. Did you ever wonder why the term “moron” was coined? try to have a nice day now …….ya hear
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Cap and Trade started out as a success. The administration of George H.W. Bush created a Cap and Trade system for smog gases from electric power generators. This modest Cap and Trade system was a big success. Pollution went down, at minimal cost to consumers.
Unfortunately, the early success of Cap and Trade created a stampede by politicians. At the beginning, Cap and Trade was not intended to be a tax scheme. Waxman and Markey should study the history of the original successful Cap and Trade systems, before proposing Cap and Trade as a source of government revenue.
Good Luck Zein! and go to http://www.jeffin2012.com to help get Ed Markey out too! America DOES have a choice!
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