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A congressional monster
A congressional monster
EDITOR:
Friday night Congress passed a bill that will forever change America. In the name of climate change Congress decided to pass a monster of a bill without having sufficient time as to even read it. Congressman Tim Ryan of course supported this bill, which had 300 pages added to it at 3 A.M. that morning, so he certainly hadn’t read it all when he voted for it.
This bill will significantly hurt the working class people greatest as they are the ones who suffer most from higher energy bills. With the added taxes it certainly isn’t the energy companies who will struggle as they will pass this sinful tax onto the consumers. The CBO estimates this climate bill will cost the average household $175 a year because of this tax.
Not only are people going to suffer higher bills from passing the tax onto the consumer, it’s going to be a lot harder to find a job because of cap and trade, which is a part of the bill. Companies are going to find it a lot harder to stay in business producing things in America when the government wants to tax any productive entity. So, as Americans, we now have to deal with this out of control huge government, a recession that will be signed into law through this climate bill, and, without a doubt, higher energy bills.
JOHN G. BREEDLOVE Jr.
Austintown
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The majority of the Democrat officials and a few Republican intend to destroy America and are using over regulation as the vehicle! Protest the enormous spending, attacks against the U.S. Constitution and bankrupting of our country by these traitors at the Tea Parties on July 4th if you can. E-mail, FAX and telephone these losers; inform other like minded Americans to do the same. We inherited the greatest nation of all time, let's not give it away. Why should we sacrifice our freedom for "security"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wzNUZVv0...
What else could we have expected from these people?
Search4Answers, Make yourself heard! THIS IS AMERICA! We are responsible for taking America back. Let's make our Founding Fathers, the colonial patriots and the Continental Army proud. Imagine what they were up against. An under manned, ill equiped army and navy, weak currency and torries (traitors), not to mention several un American newspapers. Sound familiar? Oh yes, the most important thing we can do is come back to God.
Thank You to say the least some people print everything in the world. But will be glad to skip over HR 2454 like nothing happened. This bill is the biggest theft [right now] on America or is at least in the top three. The first being GWB bailout, 2ND being "the stimulus" , 3rd HR 2454 and 4Th being Health Care. The Obama, Pelosi and voting of Ryan and Brown. Are taking this country right over the cliff.
Maybe the news will just pretend it never happened and it will be true we will wake up in a socialist country making a dash for communism.
Time to reconsider voting for anyone supporting any of these bills.
Excellent and accurate comments by Mr. Breedlove.
The Waxman-Markey anti-stimulus bill is essentially a tax on electricity...but it goes much further than that. It offers financial penalties to those whom don't have a "green" house with energy-efficient appliances, windows, etc. at the time of sale.
Additionally, this is a reversal of candidate Obama's repeated promise of no new taxes on the bottom 95% of wage earners...within 7 months of his inauguration.
When the government is taking your money, they are also taking power from you...power that you earned through hard work. Keeping the subjects dependent and vulnerable to the mighty government is the cornerstone of socialism.
None of this should be any surprise. You elect socialists...you get socialism.
This won't pass in the SENATE, Thank the Lord!
Nonsense. You omit to say the following. The CBO projected that the 20 percent of Americans with the lowest incomes would actually come out ahead. The projected eventual price of $175 yer year works out to less than 50 cents a day -- hardly a crippling burden. The bill provides funding and incentives to create good new jobs in Ohio and across the nation -- clean domestic energy jobs can drive America's economic future.
The national science academies of every leading nation in the world --including our own prestigious National Academy of Sciences -- have called on governments to take immediate action to reduce carbon emissions. If you want more facts on what science shows climate change will cost Ohioans, see the recent federal climate science report at this URL:
/www.globalchange.gov/publications/reports/scientific-assessments/us-impacts/regional-climate-change-impacts/midwest
Tim Ryan did something bold and necessary that will help create needed jobs and help his constituents.
David Scott
National Board of Directors
Sierra Club
The bill was also supported by a broad coalition of union members, businesses, environmental advocates, faith groups and others.
The idea of "50 cents a day" is just a dream and the writer knows it.
The bill was supported by all those interested in sending taxes towards energy related industries. This typical "not in my house" principal is so short sighted, it fails to realize the price we pay for energy will touch every item we buy, every person who works for a living, and every job we lose to China.
That's hardly a crippling burden, is it?
From Investor's Business Daily:
"The American Farm Bureau warns that cap and trade would cost the average farmer $175 on every dairy cow and $80 for beef cattle."
It "would be a transfer of wealth overseas," said William Kovacs, vice president for environmental affairs at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce."
"As we've said before, capping emissions is capping economic growth. An analysis of Waxman-Markey by the Heritage Foundation projects that by 2035 it would reduce aggregate gross domestic product by $7.4 trillion. In an average year, 844,000 jobs would be destroyed, with peak years seeing unemployment rise by almost 2 million."
"Consumers would pay through the nose as electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket, as President Obama once put it, by 90% adjusted for inflation. Inflation-adjusted gasoline prices would rise 74%, residential natural gas prices by 55% and the average family's annual energy bill by $1,500."
"Hit hardest by all this would be the "95% of working families" Obama keeps mentioning as being protected from increased taxation. They are protected, that is, unless they use energy. Then they'll be hit by this draconian energy tax."
"And what would we get for all this pain? According to an analysis by Chip Knappenberger, administrator of the World Climate Report, the reduction of U.S. CO2 emissions to 83% below 2005 levels by 2050 — the goal of the Waxman-Markey bill — would reduce global temperature in 2050 by a mere 0.05 degree Celsius."
By the way, 341 pages were added at 3 am the morning of the vote (26 June). Was it corrupt or just very shady?
Davescott,
What do we care if the unions supported it?
The numbers these people come up with are optimistic at best. Remember the "stimulus"? They said unemployment wouldn't go above 8% if it was passed. I think we're cruising around 9.5%.
Do you think I would trust the government to do anything when the force me to put money into Social Security. Think Madoff's a bad guy? The government does the same crap, Social Security is a ponzi scheme.
What's next are we going to have a breathing tax? You know water vapor is a green house gas too are we going to try and capture that? Its a load of crap; they are destroying this country.
Start reducing carbon dioxide by capping the crap coming out of your face.
I called voinovich and brown. Voinovich is not in support of cap and trade however, Brown is "in support of clean energy and green jobs, however he is concerned with some of the wording of the bill passed in the house and is waiting for it to come to the Senate"
I encourage you all to call voinovich to make sure he knows we agree with him and also to call Brown to know that we are not in support of Cap and Tax regardless of the wording.
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