Cap and Trade Goes Back to 1984
Old and busted: Cap and Trade
NEW GOVERNMENT HOTNESS: REDUCTION & REFUND
Didn’t like what “cap and trade” legislation will do to your electric bill or the economy? No problem! We’ll just call it “reduction and refund.” It’s the same old bill with a new exciting name. The Senate’s political hacks go back to 1984.
CAP’N TRADE IS GOING BACK TO 1984
When you change the name of a POS legislation to try and fool voters, political operatives call it “re-branding.”
George Orwell might call it “Newspeak.”
From Climate bill now a focus of Senate (via the NRO’s The Corner):
Proponents of the legislation in the Senate are reworking the proposed emissions rules and have jettisoned the term “cap and trade.” The system for reducing emissions now is being called “reduction and refund.” Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told CNBC last week “the term cap and trade is not in the lexicon anymore.”
[Zack Hill, a lobbyist for Alliant Energy who is representing a coalition of Midwest utilities on the issue] said changing the terminology was “a classic re-branding attempt by the senators to confuse consumers.”
“Cap and trade” was going to cripple industry, stifle the economy and raise electric bills for voters throughout the country–all the while making billionaires of system-gamers like Al Gore.
Voters won’t like that, so let’s change the name, not the noxious legislation.
Did you pay all of your new electric bill?
“Reduction and refund”: Problem solved!
Welcome to the future, baby!
UPDATE: A truly Orwellian update: in the future, IF cap and trade becomes law, you won’t be able to sell your house UNLESS the EPA has approved it as “energy efficient.”
Did not know that. It’s interesting but still More Big Government Bullshit.
From 04.09.10 UPDATE: Thinking about selling your house? – A look at H.R. 2454 (Cap and trade bill):
In effect, this bill prevents you from selling your home without the permission of the EPA administrator.
To get this permission, you will have to have the energy efficiency of your home measured. Then the government will tell you what your new energy efficiency requirement is and you will be forced to make modifications to your home under the retrofit provisions of this Act to comply with the new energy and water efficiency requirements. Then you will have to get your home measured again and get a license (called a “label†in the Act) that must be posted on your property to show what your efficiency rating is; sort of like the Energy Star efficiency rating label on your refrigerator or air conditioner If you don’t get a high enough rating, you can’t sell. And, the EPA administrator is authorized to raise the standards every year, even above the automatic energy efficiency increases built into the Act.
The EPA administrator, appointed by the President, will run the Cap & Trade program (AKA the “American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009″) and is authorized to make any future changes to the regulations and standards he alone determines to be in the government’s best interest.
Get that? Not your best interest but “in the government’s best interest.”
Vote them out–and keep them out.
by Mondo Frazier
image: DBKP file
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This has to stop!!!
Will there be a United States of America in another 2 years and 8 months?
While I struggle daily to “Rob Peter to pay Paul” just to put food on my table, I am going to be penalized for taking part in the “American Dream?!”
Voting “Republican” is NOT only for the “rich”, it is for ANY true American who believes that people should reap what they sow.
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Do I need to sell my home now? It probably won’t sell in a couple of years…it will cost more to update it to the energy levels that it would be to sell.
We are already thinking about stopping our TV, Cell phones, Computer, to try to save money…We are senior citizens and it is very hard to make ends meet.
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You are perpetuating a myth. Even the author you quote and link to about selling your house debunks your information.
Go to:
http://www.realtor.org/government_affairs/gapublic/american_clean_energy_security_act
and get the current information. Read the myths and facts pdf.
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admin Reply:
May 15th, 2010 at 17:30
David,
Okay then. If anyone runs afoul of the law, then all they have to do is just call david, right?
The worst law of all is the “law of unintended consequences.” Regardless of what you–or some realtors–assure, none of that, unfortunately, will hold up in court.
Just as we were assured that the RICO act when it was passed could/would NEVER be used against political protesters–it was only for dealing with the Mafia. Tell that to the Wisconsin Right-to-Life, who spent 14 years in court battling against a law intended for organized crime.
You are doing worse than perpetuating a myth: you are giving assurances that are not yours to give.
Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment.
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This is just a pile of bogus hysterical hogwash. Cap and Trade merely assigns environmental costs (taxes if you wish) on those who wield the most environmental damage. The fact that you are spewing this oil industry tripe while the Gulf of Mexico submerges in BP oil is simply the maximal height of hypocrisy – I take it the tax being paid right now by every fishermen, tour guide operator, hotel, casino, and 100′s of thousands of workers doesn’t even enter into your oil jaded thinking. The fact that your site and I am assuming your entire income is fully paid by the oil industry should be apparent to everyone.
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admin Reply:
June 11th, 2010 at 15:58
Nice try, Dave.
The amount you’re willing and able to pay will not match my own.
Also, there is more to cost than the tax statists would levy: there is the lost opportunity cost for any small businessman who is socked with higher costs for the elemental cost of energy.
Truth be told, one of these days, Utopians will learn this basic economic truth: companies/corporations do not pay taxes; their customers do, in the forms of higher prices.
All of the caterwauling by the Left about “Gee, we don’t make anything in this country anymore.” Cap-n-trade is one massive wealth transfer: to the “haves” of the carbon traders and their fellow travelers and to the Third World which will laugh at a self-imposed economic suicide by those who adopt it.
All for the sake of what? So a select set of bed-wetters can sleep better at night? Actually, if cap-n-trade were passed today, that select set would move on to some new “danger” that we must be saved from–and our salvation will only come through more taxes, more regulations, more benign government control and its concurrent loss of freedom.
Pick up an Econ 101 book and get back to me.
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