Cap-and-Trade Explained

Here's a pretty good explanation of the cap-and-trade energy taxes being promoted by Obama and the Democrats:

A PRIMER

“Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let’s not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.”–Pres. Ronald Reagan

What is “Cap and Trade”?

It is a lie. But not just a lie. It is also theft, socialism, dirt-worship. Big Government, extremism, impoverishment, fantasy and disempowerment.

Cap and Trade is a gargantuan regressive tax and oppressive regulatory scheme of energy rationing. It forces businesses to buy permission slips from a “central authority” to both create and then use energy, a double tax.

Why not just call it an Energy Tax? Because taxes are unpopular. It’s called “Cap and Trade” because “Tax and Regulate” is too honest. It is touted as a free market solution to pollution…if by “free” we mean mandatory and by “market” we mean “government”.

Once businesses are forced to buy these energy-rationing coupons or permission slips to create jobs, those slips will have value, not unlike a liquor license. Although they really have no value in and of themselves, businesses would then be unwilling to repeal this tax and lose their investment. And it would be woven into treaties, making it difficult to ever again regain our sovereignty, thus disempowering Americans.

Why do all this? Well, first, I’ll give you the stated purpose; to lower carbon dioxide levels, the gas you exhale, and therefore lower the Earth’s thermostat by a degree or two.

That is madness. We do not control the weather, despite the God-sized egos in Washington DC.

It's coming.