Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Obama’s Cap And Trade
The Cruelest Tax of All
I wrote about this in an earlier post…..
Obama Would “Bankrupt” the Coal Industry
Imagine if the cost of electricity doubled or tripled. How would you make ends meet? What if your electric bill was as big as your house payment?
From Orson Scott Card - America Unplugged! Obama’s Cruel Tax on the Poor
Oson Scott Card has the details of the Creulest Tax of All….
Instead, he’s planning to make it so expensive to generate electricity that only the rich can afford to use their appliances whenever they want.
Why? It’s all in the name of Obama’s True Belief in Global Warming. He says it himself—he’ll take coal off the table as an “ideological matter.” Even if technology allows us to use coal in a clean way, he’s opposed to pursuing it.
He wants to put a huge penalty on companies that emit carbon—which means that starting up new coal-powered electrical plants will be prohibitively expensive. In Obama’s own words, “It will bankrupt them.”
“Cap and trade” plans have already been tried, and they don’t work—they cost too much, and people find ways to get around them. But Obama promises us that he’ll take that failed idea and be “as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else’s” plan.
In other words, if it doesn’t work, let’s do more of it!
This is Obama the New Puritan. We’ve found his real religion: Political and Environmental Correctness.
For the New Puritans, Global Warming is the vengeful god that must be placated. Our economy is the sacrifice to that deity. In the name of Global Warming, we must destroy our quality of life—and, like sales tax, it will hurt the poorest people first and most.
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