Legislating America to the living standards of Mexico

The Senate is now debating a bill that would be the biggest hidden tax increase in the history of this nation. It probably does not have the votes to pass this year and Bush will veto it anyway. However, what they are doing is laying the ground work for next year when they think they will have the votes to pass it and know they will have a President that will sign it.

This legislation is plain nuts. But the politicians want to be seen as doing something about global warming because so many people in the U.S. have allowed themselves to be brainwashed by the media and Al Gore. Politicians want to get reelected and they are not going to take a unpopular stand. The truth of the matter is that most American people have no idea what this will cost them and they do not know the true facts about Global warming either. If they do not get educated in the next 7 months they better get ready for a great depression that will lower their living standards in half.

You must understand that even without this carbon tax legislations the U.S is likely to be in for an extended downturn by early next decade. The government is planning additional social give away programs that will increase taxes and stifle our economy. The retiring of the baby boon generation will lead to a fall of our productivity and our $50 trillion unfunded liability debt to pay for social security and Medicare makes it certain that American’s standard of living will continue to decline for decades. Add the cost of this carbon tax to the mix and I hope you like living on rice and beans in your un-air conditioned home and taking public transportation everywhere for the next fifty years. Expect a living standard much like that of those living in Mexico today. So who will you blame when you get what you asked for?

We Don’t Need a Climate Tax on the Poor - WSJ.com

With average gas prices across the country approaching $4 a gallon, it may be hard to believe, but the U.S. Senate is considering legislation this week that will further drive up the cost at the pump.

The Senate is debating a global warming bill that will create the largest expansion of the federal government since FDR’s New Deal, complete with a brand new, unelected bureaucracy. The Lieberman-Warner bill (America’s Climate Security Act) represents the largest tax increase in U.S. history and the biggest pork bill ever contemplated with trillions of dollars in giveaways. Well-heeled lobbyists are already plotting how to divide up the federal largesse. The handouts offered by the sponsors of this bill come straight from the pockets of families and workers in the form of lost jobs, higher gas, power and heating bills, and more expensive consumer goods

Let me end with a challenge to my colleagues. Will you dare stand on the Senate floor in these uncertain economic times and vote in favor of significantly increasing the price of gas at the pump, losing millions of American jobs, creating a huge new bureaucracy and raising taxes by record amounts? The American people deserve and expect a full debate on this legislation.

Mr. Inhofe, a Republican senator from Oklahoma, is ranking member of the Environment and Public Works Committee.