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Razenkn
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Posted: Sun Jun 28th, 2009 04:58 pm |
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Pelosi Pushes "Carbon Tax" TODAY
To Go On Vacation
Cap and Trade = "Carbon Tax"
Pelosi, Waxman and the Democrats are fast-tracking Obama's "Carbon Tax" to double your ALL your energy costs.
A VOTE IS SCHEDULED FOR TODAY 6/26/09
Pelosi plans a House Floor Vote TODAY to raise taxes for Obama with the NEW "Carbon Tax". She suddenly forced House committees to finish their work on the massive bill in less than 24 hours. Congressmen did not even get time to read the bill with hand written notes in the margin. Why you ask because it is time for her Summer Vacation and Pelosi and Waxman promised Obama they would push the “Carbon Tax”.
Congress Must Know About This Bad "Carbon Tax" Bill NOW!
It is poor judgment and bad policy to raise taxes in difficult economic times, Congress must not pass new taxes on the American people during a recession!
A Heritage Foundation study shows that electricity costs would go up 90% and gas prices would go up another 58%. In turn this will lead to an additional 2.47 million people losing manufacturing jobs.
Obama Pushes Democrats To Get In Line
Waxman and lawmakers on the House Energy and Commerce Committee met with Obama on to discuss climate change legislation. The result "We said we're moving it this year and Obama didn't object," Waxman said.
House Democrats leading the charge on President Obama's energy bill said they expect to mark up a bill by the Memorial Day recess and have final legislation passed by the end of the year.
Many Democrats Want Nothing To Do With BTU Tax II
Obama's ambitious agenda has some House Democrats are fearing a repeat of 1994, when the Clinton BTU Tax was a priority and the party lost control of both the House and the Senate.
At a leadership meeting in the Pelosi's Capitol conference room is has been reported that, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) argued that the House should move cautiously on a cap-and-trade bill if it doesn't look like the Senate will approve it.
With a lack of consensus on the varying proposals in the energy plan, Van Hollen has said the House should proceed cautiously on climate change and doesn't want vulnerable House Democrats - especially the freshmen under his care - to be forced to take difficult votes on the measure if it's not going to pass anyway.
A Typical Democrat Voter Response - Is the Spin Working?
This response it typical of what Democrats are saying: "Whatever it is...we're against it! Grand Obstructionist Party first...screw the country (may the economy and President fail for the greater good of the GOP we pray). These people are irrelevant. Pay no attention to those nude hikers behind the bushes." griff, seattle (Sent Tuesday, June 23, 2009 3:48 PM)
The Truth Obama's "Carbon Tax" Plan Taxes All Americans
It's sneaky. The Obama "Carbon Tax" or "Green Energy Tax" is a "Regressive Cap-and-Trade" plan that taxes every single person in America. Every time anyone flips on a light switch, tax dollars are collected. The Obama "Carbon Tax" plan doubles the price of your electric bill immediately. The tax money goes straight to Obama and his Federal Government bureaucrats.
Obama's "Carbon Tax" Plan Cost: $150-billion in NEW Taxes and a 10-Year Program To Develop Renewable Energy Supplies That Don't Even Exist Yet!
- Wind and solar combined can't even produce 1 percent of our needs yet
- Gas prices will be deliberately raised to make us cut back
- Heating bills will be forced up so much we'll be freezing in the dark
- Ethanol schemes are already shooting food prices through the roof
- Emission rules will be so harsh that jobs will flee to other countries
The Great Carbon Lie - Carbon Emissions Cause Global Warming
The basis of the Obama "Green Energy Tax" is the "Great Carbon Lie" that carbon emissions cause global warming. This has been proven to be completely wrong and based on bad science. Proof of this comes from Gore's own eco-friends at the United Nations with two simple pieces of data.
- Average Global Temperatures Have Decreased in the Last 10 Years.
- Carbon Emissions Have Increased 10 fold in the Last 10 Years.
Government Extortion of American Companies
This bill is just government extortion that aims at reducing greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050. The Obama "Caron Tax" proposal requires energy companies to buy licenses from the government in order to emit carbon while producing electricity.
The bottom line here is that under the Obama administration's plan money from ordinary energy consumers will be taken out of their pockets to fund big government special interest spending programs in Washington and bailouts on Wall Street. That's why the White House put the expected revenue from its "Carbon Tax plan into the budget to pay for its spending programs.
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of faxes are needed to be delivered to EACH AND EVERY Congressman right away. Be sure to send this Alert to EVERYONE you know who wants to help FORCE our government to STOP the EXCUSES and Save Taxpayers Not Spend More and Raise Taxes!
Keep calling your Congressmen today, toll free numbers include 1-877-851-6437 and 1-866-220-0044, or call toll 1-202-225-3121 AND REGISTER YOUR OUTRAGE at expanding the Obama Green Energy Tax Bill!
CALL PRESIDENT OBAMA 202-456-1111 and 202-456-1414 expressing your outrage at incompetence in wasting tax dollars to increase energy costs.
DO NOT BE SILENCED - MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD!
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Zach Colick
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Editor's note: The following story appears in the June 17 Scottsdale Independent. Post comments by hitting reply in the upper right-hand corner. Comments will be posted in an upcoming issue of the Scottsdale Independent.
Bill's aim: Bring new business to Arizona
Tax cuts will target clean-energy firms
By Zach Colick
Independent Newspapers
The solar and renewable energy sector may soon have greater reason to enhance its presence in Arizona, especially if a key piece of legislation drafted by one local senator is adopted this week.
Senate Bill 1403, introduced by Sen. Barbara Leff (R-Paradise Valley), would offer tax incentives to renewable-energy companies that choose to relocate to Arizona.
The bill has the support of the Greater Phoenix Economic Council, which believes such enticements are badly needed at a time when many companies are shunning Arizona and choosing to operate elsewhere.
Arizona has the fundamentals already in place — the workforce, climate and ample sunlight — to produce solar and renewable energy, according to GPEC officials. GPEC officials say passage of Senate Bill 1403 could be the first of many solar initiatives for Arizona in the years to come.
The state, however, does not have the proper tax structure in place for existing renewable-energy companies to contemplate moving operations from states such as New Mexico, Colorado, Oregon and California to Arizona.
Sen. Leff, a longtime Paradise Valley resident, believes Arizona needs to diversify its economy if it wants to better weather economic downturns.
“Arizona should be the solar capitol of the world as a producer, distributor and consumer of solar energy,” she said to the Independent in March. “We should be the leader in manufacturing, research, development and headquarters — but we are not.”
As a result of not having any tax incentives in place to attract the renewable-energy sector, the state has lost out on 3,800 jobs and $2.3 billion that have gone to other states, according to the GPEC.
Arizona’s opportunity to capture the renewable-energy industry is large, totaling an estimated $5.2 billion in capital investment and 5,260 new jobs.
Some highlights of the bill:
• The bill would offer factories that make renewable-energy equipment a 10 percent income tax credit on capital investment.
• Companies that spend at least $25 million would be able to reclassify their property taxes, which may account for as much as an 80 percent discount of that tax.
• To be eligible, they also would have to provide health-care coverage and meet other requirements.
Signs already look positive for Senate Bill 1403. Last week, the state Senate’s Commerce and Economic Development Committee voted 5-2 in favor of encouraging the solar and renewable-energy sector to set up shop in Arizona.
The bill was expected to be heard June 12 in front of the full Senate, with discussions continuing this week.
Without passage of Senate Bill 1403 and an amended tax structure in place, GPEC President Barry Broome said he believes Arizona will become a second-tier state when it comes to solar technology.
Mr. Broome said more than 150 companies have looked at Arizona as a viable renewable-energy marketplace during the past two years, but all walked away after finding out special incentives available in nearby states were not available in Arizona.
“The Legislature has to demonstrate some ability to manage its affairs and be more forward-thinking. I think this bill is a good example of where the state should be headed,” he said.
“It’s really important that Arizona does something other than flounder, and right now the state’s floundering. There needs to be another message sent to the marketplace other than we’re floundering.”
Opponents of Senate Bill 1403, including the Arizona Free Enterprise Club, contend lawmakers are “picking winners and losers” by offering tax incentives to one industry, while disenfranchising others.
The club believes Arizona’s economy would benefit more by lowering taxes on all businesses rather than singling out renewable-energy manufacturers.
“It’s just another example where the state is trying to do something to benefit the economy, but is being shortsighted about it by just granting these huge tax benefits and subsidies for just one industry,” said Arizona Free Enterprise Club President Steve Voeller.
Mr. Voeller supports another bill Sen. Leff is sponsoring that would reduce the corporate income tax. Senate Bill 1324 would reduce the corporate income tax rate to 4.54 percent from 6.97 percent during the next five years.
Senate Bill 1403 is capped at $70 million per year for five years. The total $350 million sum could lower the state’s corporate income tax rate from the current 6.97 percent to 4.5 percent — just like Senate Bill 1324.
“My argument to the committee was you’re going to spend $350 million, so why do it for everyone? Why do we continue to tell some businesses you get to stick around in this state and pay for us to subsidize new businesses? You don’t qualify, but you have to pay for it,” Mr. Voeller argued.
“I just think that’s inherently unfair. That’s why we continue to argue against these types of incentive schemes.”
Mr. Voeller also said he dislikes the notion that the income tax credit associated with Senate Bill 1403 could be transferred to other companies, meaning renewable-energy companies could sell the credit to any company — even non-renewable-energy companies — if they want.
“It’s something we haven’t done in this state before and for good reason — it’s terrible tax policy,” he said. “If low taxes are good for one industry, they should be good for all industries. There is no free lunch.”
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