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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 of newspapers. While it is nice to say we are winning the debate on Obamacare, we're not quite yet at the point where we can safely say it is dead. The recent preliminary...
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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-Kerry bill in the Senate to poke holes in. While the legislation leaves several things unanswered, there is one thing certain, according to a Heritage Foundation analysis: it...
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Yesterday, Paul Krugman attacked The Heritage Foundation and other opponents of cap and trade. Are the opponents of cap-and-trade relying on different studies that reach fundamentally different conclusions? No, not really. It’s true that last spring the Heritage Foundation put out a report claiming...
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Yesterday, CBS's Declan McCullagh reported on documents obtained from the Treasury Department under a FOIA request by the Competitive Enterprise Institute . The documents provide an internal overview and analysis of the cap-and-trade scheme. The first memo contains this disclosure. "In his February...
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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...
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When I wrote my post on Section 304 of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill late Tuesday night, I really had no idea that it would draw the kind of attention it did. As of 9 P.M. Thuesday night, the post had over 14,000 hits and was still climbing. I had visions of computer techs running around stuffing...
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I bet you thought that if you bought a house, you actually own it and can, with reasonable exceptions, do with it what you want. You probably think that if you want to live in a log cabin, with wood stoves that belch smoke into the air for heat, and an old washer and dryer that don't have those little...
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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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Filed under: wasteful spending, cap and trade, capitalism, stimulus package, government spending, universal health care, socialized health care, public healthcare, economic crisis, government, cap and tax, government option, federal government, founding fathers
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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...
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"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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06-28-2009
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Filed under: energy, cap and trade, capitalism, free market, stimulus package, government spending, taxes, stimulus, job losses, tax issues, economic crisis, regulation, unemployment, green jobs, cap and tax, consumers, economics, environmentalists
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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...
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Warren Buffett, the world's richest man and a vocal supporter of Barack Obama , thinks the pending cap and trade legislation would further stunt economic growth. BECKY : You said you didn't like cap and trade especially in this economy though, because it puts a tax on people. BUFFETT : I think...
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Has anyone ever noticed how so much of Obama's agenda has to be passed "quickly." Everything has a sense of urgency to it. Obama has said that his nationalized health care won't happen if it doesn't happen this year. Democrats plan to pass new regulations to the US financial system...
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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...
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Can you put a price on legislation that will do nothing to help the environment, but increase your energy bill and destroy jobs ? Well, it depends on who you ask... but don't ask the government, because you won't get an honest answer. The Environmental Protection Agency claims the answer is between...