I bet they won't run on this...
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 12:43PM
You remember the mythical shot heard round the world? Well last Friday we heard the most expensive ‘yea’ heard round the world, and it was no myth. It dwarfs anything that has proceeded it, demonstrating a willful premeditation from its supporters to give us the biggest middle finger ever conceived, by enacting a massive new tax burden on everyone and everything in America.
And two-Thirds of that tri-headed-liberal-lobbyist-pandering—party-line-towing—lying rat faced do nothing beast we sent to Washington, Shahodesheaporter (Shaheen will have her chance soon enough) voted to screw us over without a care about what was in the bill or what it would do to the people of New Hampshire--who are already paying carbon mitigation taxes through RGGI.
To suggest they lacked an understanding of the breadth of the ass-reaming we are destined to take should Crap and Trade get through the Senate almost goes without saying. The original 900 page bill was of the stimulus variety, loaded with arcane references even a seasoned staffer with the Rosetta stone couldn’t unravel. But to make it worse, Waxman dropped a 300 page amendment into it at the last minute to (among other things) buy off the Agriculture Committee weenies so he’d have enough votes to pass it in the “Peoples House.” If you think (Shaheenless)Hodesheaporter read that 300 page amendment or any other part before giving their a-ffirmative, guess again. But if you won’t take my word for it ask them how those unrelated farm subsidies will help mitigate carbon—or are we so far past the point of this having anything to do with that that it it even matters?
Agriculture wanted control of its side of the offset management business—see “congressional power to manipulate the Farm industry and the reps beholden to it”—so Waxman stripped EPA out and handed the Farm scepter to the Agriculture commies, and then gave them a tip.
Good governance? Nope just corrupt government.
At about 1200 pages of nonsense this bill is designed specifically to make energy more expensive, but because everything else we do or buy uses or relies in some way on energy it also makes everything else more expensive.
Warren Buffet called it a
‘Huge tax..and a fairly regressive tax.
The Wall Street journal pointed out that it intentionally “…hike(s) the price of electricity and gas…” but that..
These higher prices will show up not just in electricity bills or at the gas station but in every manufactured good, from food to cars. Consumers will cut back on spending, which in turn will cut back on production, which results in fewer jobs created or higher unemployment."
Imagine all the negative impacts. First, if your employer is paying more to run their business they are paying you less, or paying less of you, or both. They will be offsetting those increased costs by reducing raises, or benefits, the cost of which you will now have to shoulder or do without. If you are unemployed fewer businesses are going to think about hiring. Everything you buy will now include the increased costs of Cap and Trade. And your local and state government will be paying more as well, so expect that cost to appear in increased state and local taxes. And that’s without getting in to the bureaucratic cost of running and regulating the legislation at the federal level.
And the only thing it’s going to mitigate is jobs, wealth, and opportunity because anyone capable of doing so will take their business elsewhere—to Asia, India, eastern Europe, and China.
Why? China is opening a new coal plant every ten days and investing in cheap energy everywhere. India is burning some of the dirtiest coal on the planet, and is not about to deny its people the benefits of the lifestyle that cheap energy provides. So in the end, (Shaheenless)Hodesheaporter are not making a stand for the environment, they are simply driving our economy into a deeper hole, and driving jobs and industry to places that will make the planet a lot dirtier than they ever would or could if we maintained a better business climate here.
The net affect is a massive loss of wealth here and a negative loss of carbon reduction (if you still think that matters) by driving industry and commerce to places that emit more of it with less if any environmental controls. Global pollution gets worse. CO2 goes up. America goes down.
So your congressional reps just voted to burn you, not just on the price of energy, but on every purchase, product and service from now until you die. And Jeanne Shaheen? She’s just waiting for her chance.
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Every corporate hog connected to the zer0 stands to make out nicely on this green perfidy, even if they don't swallow the whole hoax themselves.
Stimulus money is being used as we speak in NH to test 'smart grids' whereby the gov't can reach into your home and turn it the heat down.
In Maine, they are testing the GPS tracking of your car to tax you by the mile...
What is wrong with you libernazis that you want to count, tax and control everything??? Don't you have a life?