Sarah Palin wrote an op-ed on Cap and Trade the other day. You know, just in case you hadn't heard. Aside from sending lefties into a tizzy about her actual "authority" to write an op-ed, it was good to see her actually put her energy knowledge to use. She does a pretty solid job outlining...
If you heard it once during the 2008 presidential campaign, you heard it a thousand times: Barack Obama will not raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year. Obama made the pledge most emphatically in New Hampshire, where people live free and die knowing they paid low taxes. "I can make...
Yesterday, in his weekly address, President Obama called on Americans to "summon the same spirit that inhabited Independence Hall two hundred and thirty-three years ago". This is one time when I can get behind President Obama's sentiments - although he may not like my reasons for it. What...
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It has to be a little redundant at this point, hammering away at the failure of an environmental/energy policy known as "cap & trade". Many people refer to it as "cap & tax", because it is the largest proposed tax hike in the history of the United States. I call it "cap...
President Obama played the role of concerned economic leader over the weekend after the House on Friday narrowly passed a bill designed to curtail global warming. He questioned language that would use trade penalties as a stick to punish countries that don't accept limits on emissions. "At a...
"I think if you get into the way it was written, it's a huge tax and there's no sense calling it anything else. I mean, it is a tax ." So says Warren Buffett , Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and perhaps even more importantly, one of the President's biggest supporters in the economic...
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Later today,there could potentially be a major vote in the House of Representatives about our nation's future energy policies. Eight days before communities across our nation celebrate our nation's independence, liberals on Capitol Hill may try to tie our nation's energy policies to a cap...
Everyone knows that a new cap-and-trade energy policy would hurt the wallets of American consumers, but how much? The Tax Foundation has created the Household Cap-and-Trade Burden Calculator in an attempt to answer that question on an individual basis. According to the Tax Foundation : The calculator...
The Washington Post yesterday published a gushing piece about how President Obama has made the debate about environmental policy "pop" in the first four months of his presidency. But the economy is the only thing that's going to pop if Obama gets his way. The article , a classic case of...