Is the EPA In Charge of Our Economic Future?
WaveCameCrashin
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Here are the 53 senatoes who just voted to destroy our country. Now the Epa has the power to empose on us Cap and Trade through fiat.. :evil: 
Alphabetical by Senator Name
Akaka (D-HI), Nay
Alexander (R-TN), Yea
Barrasso (R-WY), Yea
Baucus (D-MT), Nay
Bayh (D-IN), Yea
Begich (D-AK), Nay
Bennet (D-CO), Nay
Bennett (R-UT), Yea
Bingaman (D-NM), Nay
Bond (R-MO), Yea
Boxer (D-CA), Nay
Brown (D-OH), Nay
Brown (R-MA), Yea
Brownback (R-KS), Yea
Bunning (R-KY), Yea
Burr (R-NC), Yea
Burris (D-IL), Nay
Byrd (D-WV), Nay
Cantwell (D-WA), Nay
Cardin (D-MD), Nay
Carper (D-DE), Nay
Casey (D-PA), Nay
Chambliss (R-GA), Yea
Coburn (R-OK), Yea
Cochran (R-MS), Yea
Collins (R-ME), Yea
Conrad (D-ND), Nay
Corker (R-TN), Yea
Cornyn (R-TX), Yea
Crapo (R-ID), Yea
DeMint (R-SC), Yea
Dodd (D-CT), Nay
Dorgan (D-ND), Nay
Durbin (D-IL), Nay
Ensign (R-NV), Yea
Enzi (R-WY), Yea
Feingold (D-WI), Nay
Feinstein (D-CA), Nay
Franken (D-MN), Nay
Gillibrand (D-NY), Nay
Graham (R-SC), Yea
Grassley (R-IA), Yea
Gregg (R-NH), Yea
Hagan (D-NC), Nay
Harkin (D-IA), Nay
Hatch (R-UT), Yea
Hutchison (R-TX), Yea
Inhofe (R-OK), Yea
Inouye (D-HI), Nay
Isakson (R-GA), Yea
Johanns (R-NE), Yea
Johnson (D-SD), Nay
Kaufman (D-DE), Nay
Kerry (D-MA), Nay
Klobuchar (D-MN), Nay
Kohl (D-WI), Nay
Kyl (R-AZ), Yea
Landrieu (D-LA), Yea
Lautenberg (D-NJ), Nay
Leahy (D-VT), Nay
LeMieux (R-FL), Yea
Levin (D-MI), Nay
Lieberman (ID-CT), Nay
Lincoln (D-AR), Yea
Lugar (R-IN), Yea
McCain (R-AZ), Yea
McCaskill (D-MO), Nay
McConnell (R-KY), Yea
Menendez (D-NJ), Nay
Merkley (D-OR), Nay
Mikulski (D-MD), Nay
Murkowski (R-AK), Yea
Murray (D-WA), Nay
Nelson (D-FL), Nay
Nelson (D-NE), Yea
Pryor (D-AR), Yea
Reed (D-RI), Nay
Reid (D-NV), Nay
Risch (R-ID), Yea
Roberts (R-KS), Yea
Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea
Sanders (I-VT), Nay
Schumer (D-NY), Nay
Sessions (R-AL), Yea
Shaheen (D-NH), Nay
Shelby (R-AL), Yea
Snowe (R-ME), Yea
Specter (D-PA), Nay
Stabenow (D-MI), Nay
Tester (D-MT), Nay
Thune (R-SD), Yea
Udall (D-CO), Nay
Udall (D-NM), Nay
Vitter (R-LA), Yea
Voinovich (R-OH), Yea
Warner (D-VA), Nay
Webb (D-VA), Nay
Whitehouse (D-RI), Nay
Wicker (R-MS), Yea
Wyden (D-OR), Nay
http://www.marklevinshow.com/goout.asp? ... l-browner/
A crucial vote to block the EPA’s global warming power grab scheme is coming up in the Senate this afternoon. It's called "Senate Joint Resolution 26" ("SJ Res 26," is also called the Murkowski Resolution for its lead sponsor) and it would block and overturn the EPA’s global warming regulations.
Despite the Democratic majority in the Senate, the White House and Majority Leader Harry Reid have been in a desperate scramble to stop the resolution. The White House issued a veto threat and has dispatched top officials to the Hill to pressure Democratic senators.
Reid is now considering allowing a vote on an alternative two-year delay to avoid the embarrassment of a permanent overturn of EPA regulations passing the Senate. In the end, even if the extraordinary efforts of the White House prevail, this vote will, like health care, have devastating political consequences for senators on the wrong side of their constituents.
These regulations were originally devised by White House climate czar Carol Browner in the 1990s, when she was EPA administrator. At the time it was seen as a way to force action on global warming despite the fact that Congress and the American people did not want it.
The idea was to shoehorn global warming regulations from the 1970s Clean Air Act -- an idea that seemed crazy until the Supreme Court opened the door for it with their decision in "Massachusetts v. EPA" in 2007. That 5-4 decision instructed the EPA to decide whether or not to pursue global warming regulation based on the language of the statute.
In a better world, the EPA would have reacted to the court by citing the enormous administrative burden and absurd results of trying to fashion a national global warming program out of Clean Air Act programs designed for a very different problem. Then it would have decided against regulation.
Sadly, we don’t live in that world. Instead, the Obama administration’s EPA decided to apply the full force of the Clean Air Act to carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, and simply ignore the inconvenient requirements of the law. In effect, the EPA has promoted itself to a position as super-legislature of the United States, arbitrarily rewriting the law to suit its purposes.
This has the convenient feature of allowing the Obama administration to pursue an extreme global warming agenda to make energy prices skyrocket and gain sweeping regulatory control over the United States economy – without a politically difficult vote in Congress.
Until today, that is.
Today, every member of the Senate will be forced to take a position on SJ Res 26. The best explanation of the stakes comes from the left-wing senator and global warming true-believer Jay Rockefeller, a Democrat from West Virginia:
I have long maintained that the Congress - not the unelected EPA - must decide major economic and energy policy. EPA regulation will have an enormous impact on the economic security of West Virginia and our energy future.
I intend to vote for Senator Murkowski's Resolution of Disapproval because I believe we must send a strong message that the fate of West Virginia's economy, our manufacturing industries, and our workers should not be solely in the hands of EPA.
With this powerful statement – which rings as true for the national economy as for the West Virginia economy – Sen. Rockefeller laid bare the desperate arguments being put forward by the White House and Senate Democratic leadership.
Thursday’s vote is not about climate science, or the auto emissions standards (which can stand on the CAFE law without EPA’s help), a “Dirty Air Act” (greenhouse gases are not the sort of air pollution that can be seen or smelled or felt, so they don’t “dirty” the air as anyone would reasonably understand the term), or bailing anyone out.
The vote is fundamentally about one thing: who decides our economic future?
In our Constitutional Republic, the Congress of the United States is the legitimate legislative branch of government, charged with making the laws. A decision to adopt any national global warming program is an enormous one, with hundreds of billions of dollars and personal liberties at stake. This is simply not something that ought to be done through the backdoor via an unelected, unaccountable agency like the EPA.
Today it will be in the Senate’s hands to vote on whether they will stand up for themselves as an institution. Will they decide to take control of the country’s economic future by voting YES on SJ Res 26? Will they put the question of whether the country should adopt a global warming program, potentially what it should look like, in Congress, where it belongs?
Any senator who votes NO will be voting to look the other way, to outsource legislative responsibility to the EPA, and allow that agency to run roughshod over the U.S. economy. They will do so at their own electoral peril.
Cap and trade
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php? ... s&id=31438
Heard of so-called "global warming"? It's been shown to be another socialist scam to create massive government controls over a "crisis" which doesn't exist. But, as Rom Emanuel, President Obama's closest advisor has said, good socialists "never let a serious crisis go to waste." Especially if its imaginary.
Want the facts on global warming? Almost 900 scientists and experts from dozens of countries recently met for the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change in New York. Their consensus -- based on reams of detailed surface and satellite-orbiting sensors, and ice core samples, is that the earth is actually cooling, and it's caused by the sun's unexplainable recent reduction in output energy. See: Heartland for dozens of papers, keynote addresses, videos, PDF's and data results.
No problem. "Cap and Trade" is not really about so-called global warming. It's really designed to secretly extract $2 trillion per year in hidden "consumption taxes" to pay for the bloated pork, earmarks, "stimulus" and "bailout" programs that the US government has recently created to pay off their Wall Street cronies and lobbyists.
Here is what the US version of "Cap and Trade" is all about:
It's a program which will apply a tax on all release into the atmosphere of carbon (in the form of carbon dioxide) that a person generates, beginning with you personally exhaling.
Never mind the fact that carbon dioxide is a trace gas which accounts for 0.0385% (you got that right, it's 385 parts per million) of the atmosphere, and is a plant food! Never mind that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can't increase much beyond it's present level given the fact that above a certain level, the atmosphere cannot chemically absorb any more CO 2 and the rest falls back onto the surface of the earth to be absorbed by the oceans or by new plant growth (more food) and tree cover (more forests). Never mind the fact that the world's forest and plant coverage is up by over 20% the past few decades (fewer people to starve and to build wood houses). Never mind that carbon dioxide increase in levels trails by 750 years behind the warming of the earth. (They re-ran the ice core data using newer more accurate and detailed analysis techniques. Opps, there goes another of Al Gore's false global-warming slides out the window).
The new "Cap and Trade" tax - at the federal level - is actually a "consumption tax" on:
1) your breathing (no joke!) - an estimated charge based on the average person's body weight and added to annual income tax.
2) physical things that you purchase (all involve the release of carbon) including: clothes, books, magazines, computers, automobiles, DVD's, medicines, etc. To be applied to the manufacturers of these items who will then pass along the additional carbon taxes to the consumer (you) as an increase in the selling price of the product. Since all manufacturers and importers will be affected, the tax will be passed along by all of them as across-the-board price increases. Be sure to add this new tax on top of the increase in liquor and cigarette taxes now being implemented. And while we're at it, be sure to tax the tax by adding state sales taxes on top of your total purchases. If you're a socialist government, taxes are good. Right?
3) Food products that you eat. To be applied to the farmers of all food items who will then pass along the additional carbon taxes to the consumers as increased food prices. Meat products such as beef and pork, chicken, milk, cheese, butter and yogurt will be taxed at a much higher rate than low-carbon-consuming foods such as tofu, spinach, lima beans, etc.
4) Services that you consume. To be applied to all suppliers of services such as cinemas, newspapers, TV & radio stations, telephone, cable, satellite and internet companies, database providers, restaurants, fast-food outlets, dry cleaners, real estate agents, airlines, travel agencies, hotels, gardeners, doctors, attorneys, accountants, water and trash companies, local and state -- and federal -- government agencies. These hidden taxes will be passed along to the end consumer as increased charges in services and fees.
5) Energy that you consume. To be applied to all energy supplies that you consume. Honesty will prevail here. This will be listed as a direct tax on your bill. Includes: gasoline, natural gas, heating oil, electricity consumed by you personally or by machinery that you operate or businesses that you own or control. Look for gasoline to jump back above $3-4 per gallon -- or more.
Estimated costs: In excess of $2 trillion/year to be paid for by 300 million American consumers. That's roughly $6,600 for every American - including babies, and older people in retirement homes. Or, for the 50% of households who actually still pay taxes, that's about $38,000 in new taxes per year. Creation of a new federal government mega-agency requiring 50,000 new government employees with enforcement and arrest powers will be required, along with 350 new government offices with surveillance capability.
This new super agency will be needed to manage the new "excess energy consumption" supertax and it's denial-of-access powers for the piggish home consumers.
For example, the installation - as currently mandated by some states -- of new electronic controls of all residential electrical meters with remote control by the power companies and the State Energy Government grid agency will be able to remotely monitor your personal electricity consumption on a minute-by-minute basis and charge rates accordingly. Look for the new federal law to require all power companies throughout the United States to plug in their newly-installed home monitors to a massive new Washington, DC-based consumer and business "Federal Emergency Power Control Center".
Excessive consumption (as defined by the bureaucrats) will be supertaxed or alternatively your house electricity controller which will replace the electric meter can be instructed to remotely turn off the entire house power or kill the power to selected devices such as air conditioners, electric heaters, lighting, pumps, etc.
The automobile industry will be instructed to install mandatory GPS systems in all newly manufactured cars to supplement the "black box" monitor which has already been hidden under the driver's seat for the past 15 years. This box currently records up to 48 hours of car data - accessible by the police when an accident occurs - to store speed, breaking, direction, acceleration and other vital data as a person drives, including (in some models) interior audio conversations. Did you know your own car already has one of these?
The new GPS system will enable the Federal Government to real-time track all vehicles at all times, and to compute "excessive traveling" by "chronic travelers" and directly bill the registered vehicle owner via a new federal surtax on his annual state DMV car renewal tax.
Expect this bill to be introduced in Congress this year. It's being pushed by President Obama who last week stated it was his highest priority to pass such legislation before the end of 2009.
This bill is a simple massive tax increase (mostly hidden), buried in purchase costs of items you consume. This false legislation will become law because the Federal Government is near bankrupt and needs this new tax - introduced under the guise of "protecting the global environment" - to pay it's bills.
Note that the calculated so-called "benefit" in the reduction of carbon dioxide (there goes the food supply) created by the reduction in consumption that this tax will "encourage" when fully implemented - will be made completely worthless by just 6 months of increased Chinese growth in energy consumption during the year 2009 alone.
The Chinese are now building 2 new dirty coal-fired electric power plants per week, and are now producing over 1 million automobiles per month - while the US sales of our ultra-clean automobiles has collapsed to roughly 800,000 per month.
Economists estimate that the introduction of President Obama's "Cap and Trade" law will increase the US unemployment rate by 1% -1.5%. Estimates for people out of work in the USA for 2010 will rise to over 12%, and growing.
My personal estimate is that we could see unemployment rise to between 15% to 20% (Depression-era figures) by 2011 caused by all the massive bone-headed socialist spendthrift legislation now being introduced by the Federal Government, this legislation included. Cap-and-Trade is the true socialist's dream as it addresses a non-existent problem with a massive series of new hidden taxes and a massive increase in federal government bureaucrats and police with monitoring and control powers to use against the citizens of the United States.
Alphabetical by Senator Name
Akaka (D-HI), Nay
Alexander (R-TN), Yea
Barrasso (R-WY), Yea
Baucus (D-MT), Nay
Bayh (D-IN), Yea
Begich (D-AK), Nay
Bennet (D-CO), Nay
Bennett (R-UT), Yea
Bingaman (D-NM), Nay
Bond (R-MO), Yea
Boxer (D-CA), Nay
Brown (D-OH), Nay
Brown (R-MA), Yea
Brownback (R-KS), Yea
Bunning (R-KY), Yea
Burr (R-NC), Yea
Burris (D-IL), Nay
Byrd (D-WV), Nay
Cantwell (D-WA), Nay
Cardin (D-MD), Nay
Carper (D-DE), Nay
Casey (D-PA), Nay
Chambliss (R-GA), Yea
Coburn (R-OK), Yea
Cochran (R-MS), Yea
Collins (R-ME), Yea
Conrad (D-ND), Nay
Corker (R-TN), Yea
Cornyn (R-TX), Yea
Crapo (R-ID), Yea
DeMint (R-SC), Yea
Dodd (D-CT), Nay
Dorgan (D-ND), Nay
Durbin (D-IL), Nay
Ensign (R-NV), Yea
Enzi (R-WY), Yea
Feingold (D-WI), Nay
Feinstein (D-CA), Nay
Franken (D-MN), Nay
Gillibrand (D-NY), Nay
Graham (R-SC), Yea
Grassley (R-IA), Yea
Gregg (R-NH), Yea
Hagan (D-NC), Nay
Harkin (D-IA), Nay
Hatch (R-UT), Yea
Hutchison (R-TX), Yea
Inhofe (R-OK), Yea
Inouye (D-HI), Nay
Isakson (R-GA), Yea
Johanns (R-NE), Yea
Johnson (D-SD), Nay
Kaufman (D-DE), Nay
Kerry (D-MA), Nay
Klobuchar (D-MN), Nay
Kohl (D-WI), Nay
Kyl (R-AZ), Yea
Landrieu (D-LA), Yea
Lautenberg (D-NJ), Nay
Leahy (D-VT), Nay
LeMieux (R-FL), Yea
Levin (D-MI), Nay
Lieberman (ID-CT), Nay
Lincoln (D-AR), Yea
Lugar (R-IN), Yea
McCain (R-AZ), Yea
McCaskill (D-MO), Nay
McConnell (R-KY), Yea
Menendez (D-NJ), Nay
Merkley (D-OR), Nay
Mikulski (D-MD), Nay
Murkowski (R-AK), Yea
Murray (D-WA), Nay
Nelson (D-FL), Nay
Nelson (D-NE), Yea
Pryor (D-AR), Yea
Reed (D-RI), Nay
Reid (D-NV), Nay
Risch (R-ID), Yea
Roberts (R-KS), Yea
Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea
Sanders (I-VT), Nay
Schumer (D-NY), Nay
Sessions (R-AL), Yea
Shaheen (D-NH), Nay
Shelby (R-AL), Yea
Snowe (R-ME), Yea
Specter (D-PA), Nay
Stabenow (D-MI), Nay
Tester (D-MT), Nay
Thune (R-SD), Yea
Udall (D-CO), Nay
Udall (D-NM), Nay
Vitter (R-LA), Yea
Voinovich (R-OH), Yea
Warner (D-VA), Nay
Webb (D-VA), Nay
Whitehouse (D-RI), Nay
Wicker (R-MS), Yea
Wyden (D-OR), Nay
http://www.marklevinshow.com/goout.asp? ... l-browner/
A crucial vote to block the EPA’s global warming power grab scheme is coming up in the Senate this afternoon. It's called "Senate Joint Resolution 26" ("SJ Res 26," is also called the Murkowski Resolution for its lead sponsor) and it would block and overturn the EPA’s global warming regulations.
Despite the Democratic majority in the Senate, the White House and Majority Leader Harry Reid have been in a desperate scramble to stop the resolution. The White House issued a veto threat and has dispatched top officials to the Hill to pressure Democratic senators.
Reid is now considering allowing a vote on an alternative two-year delay to avoid the embarrassment of a permanent overturn of EPA regulations passing the Senate. In the end, even if the extraordinary efforts of the White House prevail, this vote will, like health care, have devastating political consequences for senators on the wrong side of their constituents.
These regulations were originally devised by White House climate czar Carol Browner in the 1990s, when she was EPA administrator. At the time it was seen as a way to force action on global warming despite the fact that Congress and the American people did not want it.
The idea was to shoehorn global warming regulations from the 1970s Clean Air Act -- an idea that seemed crazy until the Supreme Court opened the door for it with their decision in "Massachusetts v. EPA" in 2007. That 5-4 decision instructed the EPA to decide whether or not to pursue global warming regulation based on the language of the statute.
In a better world, the EPA would have reacted to the court by citing the enormous administrative burden and absurd results of trying to fashion a national global warming program out of Clean Air Act programs designed for a very different problem. Then it would have decided against regulation.
Sadly, we don’t live in that world. Instead, the Obama administration’s EPA decided to apply the full force of the Clean Air Act to carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, and simply ignore the inconvenient requirements of the law. In effect, the EPA has promoted itself to a position as super-legislature of the United States, arbitrarily rewriting the law to suit its purposes.
This has the convenient feature of allowing the Obama administration to pursue an extreme global warming agenda to make energy prices skyrocket and gain sweeping regulatory control over the United States economy – without a politically difficult vote in Congress.
Until today, that is.
Today, every member of the Senate will be forced to take a position on SJ Res 26. The best explanation of the stakes comes from the left-wing senator and global warming true-believer Jay Rockefeller, a Democrat from West Virginia:
I have long maintained that the Congress - not the unelected EPA - must decide major economic and energy policy. EPA regulation will have an enormous impact on the economic security of West Virginia and our energy future.
I intend to vote for Senator Murkowski's Resolution of Disapproval because I believe we must send a strong message that the fate of West Virginia's economy, our manufacturing industries, and our workers should not be solely in the hands of EPA.
With this powerful statement – which rings as true for the national economy as for the West Virginia economy – Sen. Rockefeller laid bare the desperate arguments being put forward by the White House and Senate Democratic leadership.
Thursday’s vote is not about climate science, or the auto emissions standards (which can stand on the CAFE law without EPA’s help), a “Dirty Air Act” (greenhouse gases are not the sort of air pollution that can be seen or smelled or felt, so they don’t “dirty” the air as anyone would reasonably understand the term), or bailing anyone out.
The vote is fundamentally about one thing: who decides our economic future?
In our Constitutional Republic, the Congress of the United States is the legitimate legislative branch of government, charged with making the laws. A decision to adopt any national global warming program is an enormous one, with hundreds of billions of dollars and personal liberties at stake. This is simply not something that ought to be done through the backdoor via an unelected, unaccountable agency like the EPA.
Today it will be in the Senate’s hands to vote on whether they will stand up for themselves as an institution. Will they decide to take control of the country’s economic future by voting YES on SJ Res 26? Will they put the question of whether the country should adopt a global warming program, potentially what it should look like, in Congress, where it belongs?
Any senator who votes NO will be voting to look the other way, to outsource legislative responsibility to the EPA, and allow that agency to run roughshod over the U.S. economy. They will do so at their own electoral peril.
Cap and trade
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php? ... s&id=31438
Heard of so-called "global warming"? It's been shown to be another socialist scam to create massive government controls over a "crisis" which doesn't exist. But, as Rom Emanuel, President Obama's closest advisor has said, good socialists "never let a serious crisis go to waste." Especially if its imaginary.
Want the facts on global warming? Almost 900 scientists and experts from dozens of countries recently met for the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change in New York. Their consensus -- based on reams of detailed surface and satellite-orbiting sensors, and ice core samples, is that the earth is actually cooling, and it's caused by the sun's unexplainable recent reduction in output energy. See: Heartland for dozens of papers, keynote addresses, videos, PDF's and data results.
No problem. "Cap and Trade" is not really about so-called global warming. It's really designed to secretly extract $2 trillion per year in hidden "consumption taxes" to pay for the bloated pork, earmarks, "stimulus" and "bailout" programs that the US government has recently created to pay off their Wall Street cronies and lobbyists.
Here is what the US version of "Cap and Trade" is all about:
It's a program which will apply a tax on all release into the atmosphere of carbon (in the form of carbon dioxide) that a person generates, beginning with you personally exhaling.
Never mind the fact that carbon dioxide is a trace gas which accounts for 0.0385% (you got that right, it's 385 parts per million) of the atmosphere, and is a plant food! Never mind that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can't increase much beyond it's present level given the fact that above a certain level, the atmosphere cannot chemically absorb any more CO 2 and the rest falls back onto the surface of the earth to be absorbed by the oceans or by new plant growth (more food) and tree cover (more forests). Never mind the fact that the world's forest and plant coverage is up by over 20% the past few decades (fewer people to starve and to build wood houses). Never mind that carbon dioxide increase in levels trails by 750 years behind the warming of the earth. (They re-ran the ice core data using newer more accurate and detailed analysis techniques. Opps, there goes another of Al Gore's false global-warming slides out the window).
The new "Cap and Trade" tax - at the federal level - is actually a "consumption tax" on:
1) your breathing (no joke!) - an estimated charge based on the average person's body weight and added to annual income tax.
2) physical things that you purchase (all involve the release of carbon) including: clothes, books, magazines, computers, automobiles, DVD's, medicines, etc. To be applied to the manufacturers of these items who will then pass along the additional carbon taxes to the consumer (you) as an increase in the selling price of the product. Since all manufacturers and importers will be affected, the tax will be passed along by all of them as across-the-board price increases. Be sure to add this new tax on top of the increase in liquor and cigarette taxes now being implemented. And while we're at it, be sure to tax the tax by adding state sales taxes on top of your total purchases. If you're a socialist government, taxes are good. Right?
3) Food products that you eat. To be applied to the farmers of all food items who will then pass along the additional carbon taxes to the consumers as increased food prices. Meat products such as beef and pork, chicken, milk, cheese, butter and yogurt will be taxed at a much higher rate than low-carbon-consuming foods such as tofu, spinach, lima beans, etc.
4) Services that you consume. To be applied to all suppliers of services such as cinemas, newspapers, TV & radio stations, telephone, cable, satellite and internet companies, database providers, restaurants, fast-food outlets, dry cleaners, real estate agents, airlines, travel agencies, hotels, gardeners, doctors, attorneys, accountants, water and trash companies, local and state -- and federal -- government agencies. These hidden taxes will be passed along to the end consumer as increased charges in services and fees.
5) Energy that you consume. To be applied to all energy supplies that you consume. Honesty will prevail here. This will be listed as a direct tax on your bill. Includes: gasoline, natural gas, heating oil, electricity consumed by you personally or by machinery that you operate or businesses that you own or control. Look for gasoline to jump back above $3-4 per gallon -- or more.
Estimated costs: In excess of $2 trillion/year to be paid for by 300 million American consumers. That's roughly $6,600 for every American - including babies, and older people in retirement homes. Or, for the 50% of households who actually still pay taxes, that's about $38,000 in new taxes per year. Creation of a new federal government mega-agency requiring 50,000 new government employees with enforcement and arrest powers will be required, along with 350 new government offices with surveillance capability.
This new super agency will be needed to manage the new "excess energy consumption" supertax and it's denial-of-access powers for the piggish home consumers.
For example, the installation - as currently mandated by some states -- of new electronic controls of all residential electrical meters with remote control by the power companies and the State Energy Government grid agency will be able to remotely monitor your personal electricity consumption on a minute-by-minute basis and charge rates accordingly. Look for the new federal law to require all power companies throughout the United States to plug in their newly-installed home monitors to a massive new Washington, DC-based consumer and business "Federal Emergency Power Control Center".
Excessive consumption (as defined by the bureaucrats) will be supertaxed or alternatively your house electricity controller which will replace the electric meter can be instructed to remotely turn off the entire house power or kill the power to selected devices such as air conditioners, electric heaters, lighting, pumps, etc.
The automobile industry will be instructed to install mandatory GPS systems in all newly manufactured cars to supplement the "black box" monitor which has already been hidden under the driver's seat for the past 15 years. This box currently records up to 48 hours of car data - accessible by the police when an accident occurs - to store speed, breaking, direction, acceleration and other vital data as a person drives, including (in some models) interior audio conversations. Did you know your own car already has one of these?
The new GPS system will enable the Federal Government to real-time track all vehicles at all times, and to compute "excessive traveling" by "chronic travelers" and directly bill the registered vehicle owner via a new federal surtax on his annual state DMV car renewal tax.
Expect this bill to be introduced in Congress this year. It's being pushed by President Obama who last week stated it was his highest priority to pass such legislation before the end of 2009.
This bill is a simple massive tax increase (mostly hidden), buried in purchase costs of items you consume. This false legislation will become law because the Federal Government is near bankrupt and needs this new tax - introduced under the guise of "protecting the global environment" - to pay it's bills.
Note that the calculated so-called "benefit" in the reduction of carbon dioxide (there goes the food supply) created by the reduction in consumption that this tax will "encourage" when fully implemented - will be made completely worthless by just 6 months of increased Chinese growth in energy consumption during the year 2009 alone.
The Chinese are now building 2 new dirty coal-fired electric power plants per week, and are now producing over 1 million automobiles per month - while the US sales of our ultra-clean automobiles has collapsed to roughly 800,000 per month.
Economists estimate that the introduction of President Obama's "Cap and Trade" law will increase the US unemployment rate by 1% -1.5%. Estimates for people out of work in the USA for 2010 will rise to over 12%, and growing.
My personal estimate is that we could see unemployment rise to between 15% to 20% (Depression-era figures) by 2011 caused by all the massive bone-headed socialist spendthrift legislation now being introduced by the Federal Government, this legislation included. Cap-and-Trade is the true socialist's dream as it addresses a non-existent problem with a massive series of new hidden taxes and a massive increase in federal government bureaucrats and police with monitoring and control powers to use against the citizens of the United States.
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oh, no's the sky is fallin'