"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 search for a new "Host" organism for Unions continues, as they have destroyed their previous Hosts in the Auto Industry. It appears they have set their sites on the Oil and Gas Industry, which by all accounts is welcoming the parasitic Unions.... The Dallas Morning News reported this morning...
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Mickey White
on 06-18-2009
Filed under: unions, green jobs, Oil and Gas, API, AFL-CIO, Building and Construction
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
Being "green" didn't start with hybrid cars, and it certainly doesn't end with them either. These days, it seems like everywhere you go, something promotes itself as "green." This week, the Obama administration unveiled its plan to invest $500 million to train workers for...