Does anyone want to volunteer to pay $ 5,000 extra in taxes this year?
Whether you be poor, rich, or even middle class, cap on trade is here. Amazingly enough most people do not know about it or do not fully understand what it will do for them. The basic idea is that the Federal Government will create a figure that it thinks is an appropriate amount of carbon emissions. It will then create a hefty tax for any additional carbon emissions.
So what are the results?
Coal, natural gas, and anything that emits “greenhouse” gases will be taxed. This is not only going to effect your electricity costs. Corporation use gasoline and energy to produce everything from tampons to food. There will even be a tax associated with tilling a field because of the carbon the soil will release.
Inevitably corporations will transfer the tax onto the consumer. If you don’t believe that to be true, listen here to our genius of a President openly discuss that fact:
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/11/02/ob…
We are not talking about a few buck here. We are talking about trillions of dollars that our liberal, progressive, moronic government wants to spend in order to fix a problem that is not even scientific fact. There are numerous problems with Gore’s assertion and also with the ways we are trying to rectify the energy crisis.
Whether you are liberal or conservative, no matter what you believe, exposing yourself to opinions that are in contradiction with your own is not a bad thing. It ensures not only that you will be educated enough to comment on something, it also ensures that you understand the entirety of the issue you are discussing. Because of this I would ask anyone that wishes to respond to this discussion to at least read a few pages of the following link to see what many scientists are saying about our government’s new policies and ideas about anthropogenic warming:
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?F…
In an hour or so your congress will put to vote a bill that will cost every American thousands of dollars each year. If you think for a second that you will be okay because you are poor you are sadly mistaken. I currently make 35-40,000 dollars a year. I own a 1500 square foot house that was built 70+ years ago. Because of this my house is under-insulated. If I were wealthy and this bill passed, I would buy solar panels and switch to geothermal heating. Unfortunately because I am merely middle class, I will not be able to afford the immense increase in my taxes, food costs, transportation cost, etc, that will be inevitable if this bill passes.
So what I ask is this: can anyone honestly say that they believe this to be the correct course of action. While you are being bombarded with Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett stories, you congress is about to pass a bill that will put an IMMENSE financial strain on families that are already struggling. I am asking that no matter what your beliefs that you take a few moments to look at these two links. If you are one of those people that has an opinion that is based on little more than what you have been taught via unqualified public school teachers, or by our politicians, or by the media, please, take a few moments to look at those links and share your opinion about what is about to happen.
Here is a phone number that will allow you to contact your congress person’s office. This is URGENT. This bill goes to vote in a matter of minutes. Good luck getting through.
2022243121
The following link will allow you to contact your local reps via online form. This is probably the best method as the phone lines are swamped with angry voters:
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home…
Enter your zip at the right of the page, click on the representatives name, and then click on online contact form.
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I’m willing to bet none of you even bothered looking at the links. That’s because what you are spewing is “meaningless political jargon”
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I hear you Nipsis, and the worse part of all if this does pass they have provisions to “protect” the “poor” – you know the bottom feeders who already get free energy assistance (up to $ 900 in my area), food stamps, free college education , thousands back more than they paid in taxes via EIC and all kinds of other freebies – now they will also get “vouchers”
I have my Vaseline nearby. I saw it coming when they took over the white house and the senate and congress.
If I might add, there is no use contacting your legislators. I have worked like a dog contacting them on every issue and they dont ever reply until after the fact and just tell me they supported the bill “because”?
Because they drank the Kool-Aid.
People from every income level should understand this bill will increase every persons cost of living…consider that there is not one single thing in our lives this bill won’t increase. Every single bite of food that goes in our mouths is somehow produced by energy so food will go up if for no other reason the fuel cost related to getting food to the grocery stores. Every home in this country will be required to meet California standards and if they don’t you will be required to bring your home up to California standards in order to sell it. There is 1300 pages to this bill and it is being pushed through without being read by the House…last time this happened AIG people got million dollar bonus’.
Actually, I believe, the G.O.P. in the House has essentially filibustered the vote for the day (According to the Drudge Report.), so we shall have to wait for a further vote on this bill.
So it’s official now, 219-212, the Dems won. Now we can only hope that the Republicans in the Senate can hold the bill off (not very likely).
Because money is all that matters. And ignoring problems makes them go away. And short-term gain is always better then long-term benefit. Yes, continuing to ignore global warming sounds like a great idea.
This climate bill has nothing to do with saving the planet or the polar bears. The problems that this legislation claims to address do not exist. Regulating our behavior and limiting our freedom will not have any effect on the climate. It is a pure power and money grab by the same people in Washington who have been grabbing power and money since Obama was inaugurated.