Healthcare Reform Killing Cap and Trade?

Like I was sayin… once we get a chance to see what they are doing, it will all slow down.  With congress, the president, and the nation all focused on Healthcare Reform, several of the other top agenda items are being put on the back burner.

According to this post at Conservative Patriot HQ, several top Democrats are starting to worry that the Healthcare debate will kill other key initiatives.

Let us all hope that they don’t try to sneak a bunch of stuff through while we are all watching the healthcare debate.

Cap and Tax Bill Nears Vote

Like I was sayin… Hold on you your wallets.  The house is moving toward passing the Waxman Markey bill to combat the global warming hoax.  You can read all about the latest on the bill here.

Some of the more vexing issues are that we are going to have a massive tax increase to fight a make believe crisis.  Energy prices are expected to almost double.  Gas will go up at least 77 cents a gallon according to some estimates.  Waxman just added another 300 pages to the bill prior to the vote and there are placeholders for more legislation.  This means that anybody who votes for it is voting for a bill that is missing language that will be inserted after the bill passes.  I didn’t even know this was legal.

This story has links to a list of congressmen that are on the fence.  You need to call them to put a stop to this.

Global Warming and Truth in Advertising

As congress moves closer to drafting and passing a cap and trade bill, Americans need to understand that they are the victims of a giant hoax.

There is a great post over at the Conservative Patriot HQ discussing this topic.  Our media and government seem to want to ignore that fact that man made global warming claims are dubious at best.  Most of the studies ignore evidence to the contrary or skip the peer review process all together.

Soon, Americans will be burdened with a massive energy tax that will cripple our economy.  The question is, are we going to let this happen?

We are all rich when it comes to Cap and Trade

Like I was sayin… you get what you ask for.

Everybody wants to be kind to the environment, however, some would like all Americans to pay a hidden tax to combat the specter of global warming (or climate change, the new ice age, or whatever bugaboo the climate fear-monger’s PR department is using now).

The president’s current budget depends upon and plans for vast revenues from a cap and trade program.  Some people assume that corporations will just pay these fees without passing on the expense to customers.  This is a very naive way of looking at how businesses work.

Today in the WSJ, there was a great opinion piece that lays out the ramifications for all Americans.

Hit hardest would be the “95% of working families” Mr. Obama keeps mentioning, usually omitting that his no-new-taxes pledge comes with the caveat “unless you use energy.” Putting a price on carbon is regressive by definition because poor and middle-income households spend more of their paychecks on things like gas to drive to work, groceries or home heating.

The bottom 95% of earners will not have their direct taxes raised, but rather the amount that they pay in pass through taxes.  A pass through tax is a tax that a company passes along to it’s customers.  By the way, all taxes levied on businesses are pass through taxes.

Interestingly enough, this “tax” would not be spread evenly across all Americans.  Some will be harder hit than others.

Coal provides more than half of U.S. electricity, and 25 states get more than 50% of their electricity from conventional coal-fired generation. In Ohio, it totals 86%, according to the Energy Information Administration. Ratepayers in Indiana (94%), Missouri (85%), New Mexico (80%), Pennsylvania (56%), West Virginia (98%) and Wyoming (95%) are going to get soaked.

The fact that individual Americans will be required to pay for this type of program seems to not sink in for many Americans.

Many liberal democrats have lamented the drop in oil prices which were impacting all Americans.  This cap and trade scheme put forth by the administration is an attempt to push energy prices back up.  In another opinion piece in the WSJ, Laura D’Andrea Tyson points out:

 Critics of a cap-and-trade system are correct when they claim it will raise the prices of goods and services whose production and use emit carbon. That’s exactly the point: Higher prices are necessary to encourage energy efficiency and the development of renewable energy, to discourage carbon emissions, and to reduce the societal costs of global warming.

Here again is the specter of global warming being put forth as justification for enacting policies that will be detrimental to all Americans.  The fact that global average temperatures have been dropping for the last 8 to 10 years doesn’t seem to figure into the calculation.

Slowly but surely, Americans will begin to realize the path we are headed down.  I only hope that it won’t be too late to reverse course when they do understand.