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Thursday, June 25. 2009

Cap & Trade: They just want your money

If passed, it would be the biggest tax in US history. Which is why the Dems are so intent on it. Climate has zip to do with it.


They want your money. They always do. They should have it, because they are so much smarter, wiser, more altruistic, and more deeply caring than I am, clinging here as I do in abject, helpless ignorance to my guns and Bible and my land and my (now paltry) life savings, and trusting in God, my own and my wife's resourcefulness, and trusting in the American spirit instead of in Pelosi, Rangel, Reid, Waxman, Obama, and all of the other buffoons and sleazes in DC.


It must be because I am stupid. Perhaps I am, because when I commented to the supermarket check-out girl yesterday about all of the cold and rain, she authoritatively informed me that it was due to climate change. At first, I thought she was kidding.

Posted by The Barrister in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects, Our Essays at 11:55 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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Oh the evil genius of politicizing 'weather' and selling it to all us pore dumb peoples. Tar & feathers is too good for 'em. Noose and lampost, noose and lampost. Dunno when but sooner or later.
#1 buddy larsen on 2009-06-25 12:48 (Reply)
Gee whiz, guys ... My butcher told me authoritatively last week that there was no global warming. Maybe we could introduce them. She could get something out of it -- more knowledge, and he cuts a mean pork chop.

Marianne
#2 Marianne Matthews on 2009-06-25 16:39 (Reply)
It's much worse than a tax - at least with a tax the government gets the revenue. With cap and trade, consumers will still pay more, but the money will go to the traders of carbon credits.

If I'm going to be taxed in order to "save the world" from an imaginary crisis (i.e. global warming) I at least want my money to go the government, not Goldman Sachs.
#3 Captain Obviousness on 2009-06-25 16:50 (Reply)
Goldman Sachs, AKA "Government Sacks".
#3.1 buddy larsen on 2009-06-25 19:44 (Reply)

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