Here Comes The Senate Cap And Tax Bill!

by William Teach | September 30, 2009 9:30 am

And it is only 800 pages!

A climate change bill circulating in the Senate[1] on Tuesday is slightly more ambitious than one passed in the House of Representatives, but still has many details to be worked out on how to encourage companies to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases.

The legislation by Senators Barbara Boxer and John Kerry to be formally unveiled on Wednesday aims to reduce smokestack emissions of carbon dioxide by 20 percent by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050 — from 2005 levels.

Sweet! And, such transparency! Halp us Jon Carry, halp us!

Boxer’s Environment and Public Works Committee is expected to continue working behind closed doors to fill in other details before trying to sign off on the bill by the end of October.

John McCain has already stated he could never support this legislation, and James Inhofe said that he cannot imagine it being debated and passed this year.

The Senate Democrats’ bill also aims to encourage more “clean vehicles” and to improve airliners’ fuel efficiency. It also would help those who suffer job losses from climate control efforts with a “worker adjustment assistance” program.

With a wave of the mightly fairy wand and some unicorn poots, all will be well. As Bob Ellis at The Dakota Voice[2] writes

This bill would cost millions [3]of American jobs, raise our electric bills by 40% or more, hinder much-needed refining[4] capacity, hurt foreign trade[5], block much-needed power plant[6] development, require home inspections[7] and environmental retrofitting before we can sell our homes, regulate how much wate[8]r we can use in our own homes,

Courtesy of the Green Hell Blog[9], we have a look at the draft of the Senate version[10] of the cap and trade global warming tax bill.

Apparently, not to be outdone by the asininity and hostility[11] toward the American people of the U.S. House, the U.S. Senate has upped the ante and called for a 20% reduction[12] in greenhouse gases, even more egregious than the House bill.

All this to “fix” a problem that doesn’t even exist!

Whether it exists or not, bottom line, Democrats see this issue as a way of controlling more of America’s economy, its businesses, and its People.

BTW, just be thankful I didn’t add one of my special Barbara Boxer photoshops[13]!

Endnotes:
  1. climate change bill circulating in the Senate: http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed7/idUSTRE58S5X320090929
  2. Bob Ellis at The Dakota Voice: http://www.dakotavoice.com/2009/09/senate-cap-and-trade-bill-draft-released-worse-than-house-version/
  3. millions : http://www.dakotavoice.com/2009/08/cap-and-trade-tax-could-cost-2-million-jobs/
  4. refining: http://www.dakotavoice.com/2009/06/report-cap-and-trade-bill-bringing-refinery-closures/
  5. trade: http://www.dakotavoice.com/2009/07/global-warming-tax-bill-will-handicap-foreign-trade-jobs/
  6. power plant: http://www.dakotavoice.com/2009/06/cap-and-trade-tax-threatens-new-power-plant-development/
  7. home inspections: http://www.dakotavoice.com/2009/07/cap-and-trade-bill-regulates-home-sales-and-filled-with-indecipherable-passages/
  8. wate: http://www.dakotavoice.com/2009/06/cap-and-trade-bill-attack-of-the-shower-nazis/
  9. Green Hell Blog: http://greenhellblog.com/2009/09/29/draft-boxer-bill-available-here/
  10. Senate version: http://greenhellblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/boxerbill-discussion-draft.pdf
  11. hostility: http://www.dakotavoice.com/2009/06/democrat-contempt-for-america-passes-global-warming-tax/
  12. 20% reduction: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/29/senate-climate-draft-tougher-house-version/
  13. special Barbara Boxer photoshops: http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y164/wteach/defeatocrats/babs.jpg

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