We Can’t Forget To Give Our U.S. Senators Our Input On Climate Taxation Legislation
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
With all the attention being given to the effort by Washington, D.C. to nationalize (I meant “reform”) the health care (I mean health insurance) sector, and the focus of our elected officials to have “We the People” be more willing to blindly accept what they have already decided to take care of us – the once highly controversial cap-and-tax legislation that’s pending in the U.S. Senate might have slipped from the radar screen.
Although we already know that U.S. Senator Harry Reid has decided that he’s in support of the legislative concept of the U.S. Government taxing us for the energy we use that’s not deemed appropriate, it still would be a good idea to drop him a note to tell him that you don’t agree that this is a very good idea at all. You might want to share with him some of the insights that’s provided in this Heritage Foundation information piece to clear up his assertions that the idea of this little-old-tax thing is going to have much of an impact at all.
Communicating this information won’t change our Senator’s mind, but it should serve notice that the party’s poll-tested, talking points he’s using to get us convinced about the appropriateness of his position might not match up with better information and insights.
There is strength in many of the Senator’s constituents sending the same message that we’re not falling for or accepting the myth of the U.S. Senate needing to pass the Climate Cap-and-Tax bill.
As observed in the Heritage Foundation’s analysis of the measure passed by the U.S. House (and supported by two of Nevada’s Representatives – Congresswoman Berkley and Congresswoman Titus),
The Heritage Foundation’s projects that by 2035: (all the figures are in constant 2009 dollars)
The costs presented above (and the further destruction of our economy) will have a dramatic effect of possibly improving the earth’s imagined heat problem by 0.2 degree (Celsius) by 2100 and probably not more than 0.05 degree reduction by 2050.
Thank you Senator Reid! Thank you President Obama! Thank you, Mr. Gore! We are certainly not worthy of all you do to us...
With all the attention being given to the effort by Washington, D.C. to nationalize (I meant “reform”) the health care (I mean health insurance) sector, and the focus of our elected officials to have “We the People” be more willing to blindly accept what they have already decided to take care of us – the once highly controversial cap-and-tax legislation that’s pending in the U.S. Senate might have slipped from the radar screen.
Although we already know that U.S. Senator Harry Reid has decided that he’s in support of the legislative concept of the U.S. Government taxing us for the energy we use that’s not deemed appropriate, it still would be a good idea to drop him a note to tell him that you don’t agree that this is a very good idea at all. You might want to share with him some of the insights that’s provided in this Heritage Foundation information piece to clear up his assertions that the idea of this little-old-tax thing is going to have much of an impact at all.
Communicating this information won’t change our Senator’s mind, but it should serve notice that the party’s poll-tested, talking points he’s using to get us convinced about the appropriateness of his position might not match up with better information and insights.
There is strength in many of the Senator’s constituents sending the same message that we’re not falling for or accepting the myth of the U.S. Senate needing to pass the Climate Cap-and-Tax bill.
As observed in the Heritage Foundation’s analysis of the measure passed by the U.S. House (and supported by two of Nevada’s Representatives – Congresswoman Berkley and Congresswoman Titus),
“The Waxman-Markey bill proposes a new national tax of historic proportions. Though levied directly on carbon-based energy, the tax’s impact spreads throughout the economy, increasing prices, reducing income, destroying jobs and significantly expanding the national debt.”
The Heritage Foundation’s projects that by 2035: (all the figures are in constant 2009 dollars)
- Gasoline prices will rise 58 percent above the baseline forecast, which already contains price increases;
- Natural gas prices will rise 55 percent;
- Heating oil prices will rise 56 percent;
- Electricity prices will rise 90 percent;
- A family of four can expect to pay $1,241 more for energy cost, per year;
- Including taxes, a family of four will pay $4,609 more per year;
- A family of four will reduce its consumption of goods and services by up to $3,000 per year (as the income and savings which sustains the family fall);
- Aggregate Gross Domestic Product (GDP) losses will be $9.4 trillion; (Please don’t ever tell the folks running Washington, D.C. what comes after a Quadrillion…)
- Job losses will be nearly 2.5 million; and
- The national debt will rise an additional $12,803 per person
The costs presented above (and the further destruction of our economy) will have a dramatic effect of possibly improving the earth’s imagined heat problem by 0.2 degree (Celsius) by 2100 and probably not more than 0.05 degree reduction by 2050.
Thank you Senator Reid! Thank you President Obama! Thank you, Mr. Gore! We are certainly not worthy of all you do to us...
Posted by Doug Busselman at 8/12/2009 10:19 AM 
Categories: Climate Change
Tags: Taxes Senator Reid Cap-and-Trade
Categories: Climate Change
Tags: Taxes Senator Reid Cap-and-Trade
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