They say the vote on H.R. 2454, the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade ENERGY TAX is going to be close. Take a few minutes now to make yourselves heard. This mega-tax will hit us and our economy where it really hurts.
Go to Michelle Malkin for call lists and new information on the EPA suppressing inconvenient data. If global warming were a slam-dunk reality with honest science behind it, why the need to suppress data?
Pat in Shreveport points out that jobs will be lost and the cost of everything will rise:
The Heritage study also points out that energy costs will skyrocket: "President Barack Obama described the plan best when he said “[u]nder my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” And skyrocket they will. In total, a typical family of four will see its energy costs rise by over $22,800 from 2012-2035." I don't know about you, but my energy costs are already incredible. And we all know what happens when energy costs rise. Everything else does, too.
Last summer when gas prices were $5.00, the cost of everything else in the grocery store went up. Not just a few cents, either. Milk jumped from $2 to $4 a gallon, a pound of cheese jumped from $1.50 to $4.50...
Do you remember that? My family really felt it when grocery and gasoline prices spiked. We thought twice about every dollar we spent and every mile we drove. The spike was caused by the rise in oil prices. And now the government wants to deliberately bring those crazy-high prices back, under the guise of saving the planet, and at a time when the economy is in no condition to sustain such a hit.
But even those who may believe that global warming is a reality do not, because they cannot, assert that Waxman-Markey will have anything more than a miniscule, marginal effect on bringing down the temperature. But it will have deleterious effects on the entire economy. See the graphic in this post at Power Line. Like the proposed health care 'reform,' the C&T tax will give the federal government control over another chunk of our economy:
Republicans point out that the Waxman-Markey bill would create a convoluted federal bureaucracy that would control key sectors of the economy and of our lives. . . . The Democrats, not having read the bill, were unable to comment.
Discouraging, isn't it, that legislators don't read the laws they impose on us? Here's what James Madison said about bills that are too long and convoluted to be read. Would he be able to wrap his mind around this morbidly obese piece of #%$@ legislation?
h/t: Doug Ross
Related post here.
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