Tax and Trade

Cap-and-trade bill narrowly passes in the House
API SmartBrief 06/29/2009
The House passed the cap-and-trade climate change bill Friday by a 219-212 vote, with 44 Democrats opposing the legislation. "No matter how you doctor it or tailor it, it's a tax," said Rep. Joe Pitts, R-Pa. New York Times, The (06/26) Bloomberg (06/27) Wall Street Journal, The (06/28)

Kliphnote: This bill is over 1200 pages. And a 300 page amendment was put in at 3 O'clock

in the MORNING. Nobody has read the whole thing. Let me say, here and now, there is something in the bill that will surprise you, and it's NOT good. Get ready to pay more taxes. Everyone! A lot more. Now that Al Franken will take a seat in the United States Senate, and give the Democrats a filibuster-proof 60 votes. Taxes and more taxes.

The states are going broke also, they will be taxing you more too. For everything!

I'm glad I won't live forever.