Cap and Trade

The Cap and Trade Law

First let’s establish that there is climate change happening in this world. Now politicians want you to believe that this is caused by mankind. The debate on this is still going on, by politicians and scientists. What’s bad, is liberal politicians are saying that the debate is over because they have some of the scientists agreeing with their opinion.

Science is not a consensus, either they can prove or they can’t prove that mankind is causing climate change. I believe that the earth is going through one of its cycles that occur naturally. The earth has gone through cooling and warming periods in its existence. So anyone who thinks they can influence these cycles must think that they are equal to God.

The man made climate change hoax was perpetrated by Al Gore. He first started this deception as global warming, caused by mankind but later as the evidence showed differently. He changed it, to climate change caused by mankind. Al Gore in his infinite wisdom as a politician saw a potential for a new form of tax revenue, in the way of carbon credits. He also saw a way that would give him and his friends the ability, to keep their life style intact by reducing the life style of others.

You see with the political climate in the Democratic Party, anyone who would vote to drill for oil in our country, the United States, would probably loss their seat in the house or Senate, by being voted out of their office, by their constituents. So how can you keep your life style intact while you see the consumption of oil and coal rising in your country every year? Especially, when you made campaign promises to your constituents to eliminate coal use and to stop oil exploration.

You come up with a law that will allow you to buy carbon credits, while making it so expensive to the average citizen that they won’t be able to buy them. You then find out how much of the supply of oil is dwindling. Then by obtaining this information, you implement a Cap and Trade law that will allow the government, to levy taxes on the production of carbon dioxide. You would start to pay this tax once you exceeded your allowed limit.

Usually government in their greed for tax revenue set these cap ridiculously low and since you can’t afford to buy carbon credits you will lower you life style. This means you will freeze in the winter and sweat in the summer.

This situation will come about by the Cap and Trade bill that just got passed by the House of Representatives. Soon to be voted on by the Senate in September; I wonder if we will hate this new form of tax, disguised as a Cap and Trade law, as much as the salt tax was hated by the French people in the 17th and 18th centuries?

Salt back then was an “essential commodity” as oil and coal are today.[1] The Salt tax was used as a political tool to put pressure on the people who had no control on that commodity. “One of the most oppressive and intolerable tax burdens was the Gabelle – the salt tax levied by the French King.”[2] This tax that was levied on the French people will pale in comparison, to the Cap and trade law that will be implemented by the government of the United States.

Thus the Cap and Trade law, which will be signed into law by Barack Obama, will be more oppressive than the salt tax that the French king levied on his people. So why would the Democratic Party, which is in power in the United States do such a thing? They need tax revenue for their social programs. Their life style and power is more important to them then the needs of the country or the needs of its people.


[1] http://www.salt.org.il/legabelle.html
[2] http://www.salt.org.il/legabelle.html