Posts Tagged ‘cap and trade’
November 24th, 2009 | 1 Comment
That’s the story we’re being sold. It’s hard to understand exactly where those jobs come from, but here’s a stab at it: President Barack Obama hits three nails on the head with his plan to cap carbon emissions: weaning us off fossil fuels, spurring a wave of investment and job creation, and putting cash in [...]
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September 29th, 2009 | No Comments
Waxman-Markey is the creme of every liberal’s crop of life control legislations. This thing affects every single aspect of life as you know it. Surprisingly, it’s not gotten anywhere. “Cap and trade” has sort of become synonoums with “taxing”. Now, I a cynic. I think Waxman-Markey is loonie. I have yet to have one single [...]
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Here’s the story: The AFL-CIO labor union has a new tax in mind. Specifically, the union wants to apply a small tax — a tenth of 1 percent — on every stock transaction. The tax would especially target firms that use so-called high-frequency trading, which uses technology to oversee many transactions in the blink of [...]
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Posted in economic-policy, Energy Policy, Fed Policy, Government, Health Care Debate, Legislative Process, National Debt, Personal Finances, Political Correctness, Trends | No Comments »
I receive several newsletters in regards to what I do at work. This is one I received this morning. Kentucky lawmakers discuss possible effects of federal energy bill FRANKFORT – State lawmakers shared comments and concerns about a federal bill that proposes, among other changes, a three percent cut in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by [...]
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That’s my opinion. No one really cares all that much tho. But, maybe they would if I had some uppity title like Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. That’d be kind of impressive dontcha think? Well, I can’t claim the title, but the guy who can, Dr, James Hansen, has. He doesn’t [...]
Tags: cap and trade, carbon, clean air act, co2, commerce for economic affairs, credits, disaster, environmental protection agency, EPA, Goddard, institute for space studies, james hansen, markey, nasa, robery shapiro, waxman
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OK, so we’re no sooner finishing Obama’s reform of the housing, banking, and automakers industries, than we’re apparently ready to do the same to the energy industry. Now, as with the other situati0ns, you’ve got two very different prevailing thoughts going apparently. On one side, is the keep it simple philosophy. In the other debates, [...]
Tags: california, cap and trade, carbon credit, cost, environmentalist, global warming, henry-waxman, heritage foundation, kentucky district of columbia, Maryland, obama, Utah
Posted in economic-policy, Fed Policy | 1 Comment »
April 28th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Can somebody explain to me how cap and trade realisticaly does anything to save the environment? It seems to me it’s just a tax on businesses the government randomly decides is bad and doesn’t guarantee any rewards to businesses the government deems good. No rhetoric accepted, I need cold hard facts.
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Posted in Political Correctness | 1 Comment »
