"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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Despina Karras
on 06-28-2009
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
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...
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K. Daniel Glover
on 06-01-2009
Filed under: cap and trade, green jobs, carbon emissions, CAFE, fuel efficiency, greenhouse gases, cap and tax