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Another Reason We Don't Need Cap-And-Trade

If we weren't talking so much about health care right now, you can bet cap-and-trade would be the big story on the front pages...

By Matt Margolis | 10-10-2009

John Kerry Doesn't Know What "Cap and Trade" Means

If we didn't already have enough fun talking about the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill in the House, we now got the Boxer...

By Matt Margolis | 10-05-2009

Why Are We Still Talking About Cap and Trade?

Yesterday, Paul Krugman attacked The Heritage Foundation and other opponents of cap and trade. Are the opponents of cap-and-trade...

By Matt Margolis | 09-26-2009

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Dem's Cap and Trade Bill Is a 3.6 Trillion Dollar Gas Tax Too

Democrats know their cap and trade energy legislation will cripple the US economy. Barack Obama admitted this on the campaign trail in 2008 saying the program "would cause energy prices to skyrocket." Obama also promised an audience of supporters...

Published 10-27-2009 9:28 AM by Jim Hoft

Filed under: cap and trade
Cap-and-Trade or Three-Card-Monty?

What exactly does Congress intend to do with cap-and-trade? The bill awaits the attention of lawmakers as the efforts by Democratic leadership to dictate an overhaul of the American health-care system convulses and stalls. The House passed Waxman-Markey...

Published 10-15-2009 9:38 PM by Edward Morrissey

Filed under: cap and trade
Cap and Clobbered: Midwest Will Be Hit Hardest By Cap & Trade

Democrats know their cap and trade energy legislation will cripple the US economy. Barack Obama admitted it on the campaign trail in 2008 saying the program "would cause energy prices to skyrocket." Obama also promised this audience of supporters...

Published 07-21-2009 11:32 AM by Jim Hoft

Filed under: energy, cap and trade, midwest
Obama, The Car Salesman

Have you ever had to buy a new car? It's one of the worst purchases you ever have to make. Everyone dreads that day. Oh, you look forward to getting the car. You pick the one you want, you take it for a test drive. You can't wait to drive it home...

Published 07-20-2009 12:05 AM by Cassy Fiano

Filed under: stimulus, health care, cap and trade, government spending
The Left's Scorched Earth Policies

It's amazing how quickly things can change in 178 days. Barack Obama's poll numbers are not what they once were. When Obama was inaugurated in January, he had the wind of political opinion at his back with an approval rating in the high sixties...

Published 07-17-2009 12:05 AM by Kim Priestap

Filed under: energy, wasteful spending, health care, cap and trade, economic recovery
Cap and Trade: Please Don’t Try This at Home

One of the great truisms of the free market system is that if you make something more expensive, you are liable to get less of it. Case in point; cigarettes. The government recently increased the tax on cigarettes by 139 percent — a whopper of a...

Published 07-14-2009 12:05 AM by Rick Moran

Filed under: energy, cap and trade
BARONE - Chaos on Capitol Hill: All Politics Is Loco

Disarray. That's one word to describe the status of the Obama administration's legislative program as Congress heads into its final four weeks of work before the August recess. A watered-down cap-and-trade bill passed the House narrowly last month...

Published 07-13-2009 10:29 AM by Michael Barone

Filed under: wasteful spending, health care, cap and trade, economic recovery
A Lesson from the G-8?

President Barack Obama’s first G-8 Summit has concluded, and he’s beaming. Obama pushed his pet issue, climate change, to the top of the leaders’ agenda, and the leaders of the U.K., Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Japan and Russia signed...

Published 07-10-2009 12:05 AM by T. J. Brown

Filed under: energy, cap and trade
Obama's Wrecking Ball Policies

Leave it to Joe Biden to inadvertently tell the truth about just what is going on with the Obama administration. He gave an interview with "ABC This Week". You’ll remember that ABC is the channel that sponsored the Obamacare infomercial...

Published 07-07-2009 12:05 AM by Cassy Fiano

Filed under: wasteful spenging, bailouts, cap and trade, economic recovery, biden, government spending
The Outrageous Costs of Cap and Trade

In an increasingly fervent effort to destroy any chance of return to the booming economies seen during the Clinton and Bush administration, the White House and congressional Democrats have their hearts set on moving on climate change legislation before...

Published 07-04-2009 12:05 AM by Michael Lewis

Filed under: taxes, wasteful spenging, energy, EPA, cap and trade
The High Costs of Cap and Trade

The House just passed a massive power grab disguised as a bill called Waxman-Markey, more commonly known as the cap and trade bill. This bill will cripple the United States economy in the name of reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions. Proponents...

Published 07-02-2009 12:05 AM by Cassy Fiano

Filed under: taxes, energy, cap and trade
Cap and Trade

The Waxman Bill (Cap and Trade), simply put, is an energy tax. An energy tax that can, and if passed today, and will change the face of America. One of the American Issues Project bloggers, Jimmies Bise , did a great job explaining what the tax means...

Published 06-26-2009 12:05 AM by Kirsten Wright

Filed under: taxes, cap and trade
Cap and Trade: Economy Killer

People choose economic policies to bolster their standard of living and to create opportunity. While people disagree on the most effective economic paths, they agree that higher productivity, more employment, and stronger buying power across all economic...

Published 06-11-2009 8:08 AM by Edward Morrissey

Filed under: liberal hypocrisy, cap and trade
Veruca Salt President

No one can forget Veruca Salt, the rude, selfish, and obnoxious child of a rich nut magnate in the 1971 film “Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.” Self-centered and uncompromising, Veruca insisted that she always get her way and demanded...

Published 06-05-2009 8:19 AM by Kim Priestap

Filed under: stimulus, auto industry, chrysler, cap and trade, GM
Liberals Know Their Cap & Trade Plan Will Obliterate Economy--and Don't Care

"Under my plan of a cap and trade system electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Businesses would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that cost onto consumers." That was Senator Barack Obama speaking...

Published 05-19-2009 12:33 AM by Jim Hoft

Filed under: al gore, congress, economy, energy, cap and trade

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Dem's Cap and Trade Bill Is a 3.6 Trillion Dollar Gas Tax Too

Cap-and-Trade or Three-Card-Monty?

Cap and Clobbered: Midwest Will Be Hit Hardest By Cap & Trade

Obama, The Car Salesman

The Left's Scorched Earth Policies

Cap and Trade: Please Don’t Try This at Home

BARONE - Chaos on Capitol Hill: All Politics Is Loco

A Lesson from the G-8?

Obama's Wrecking Ball Policies

The Outrageous Costs of Cap and Trade

The High Costs of Cap and Trade

Cap and Trade

Cap and Trade: Economy Killer

Veruca Salt President

Liberals Know Their Cap & Trade Plan Will Obliterate Economy--and Don't Care