Clinton, Obama sign onto to Boxer’s $4,500 climate tax

Clinton, Obama sign onto to Boxer’s $4,500 climate tax; By Marc Morano; the eco•logic Powerhouse; May 14, 2007.

Senate Environment & Public Works Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) have proposed the "Global Warming Pollution Reduction Act" aimed at combating climate change. The proposed partisan bill (S.309) is supported by another 15 senators, including: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY); Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL); Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-CT); Sen. Joseph R. Biden (D-DE); Sen. Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI); Sen. Russell D. Feingold (D-WI); Sen. Daniel K. Inouye (D-HI); Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA); Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ); Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT); Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ); Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI); Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI); Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski (D-MD), and Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD).

The Kyoto Protocol would have imposed an equivalent tax of over $300 billion a year, 10 times the size of the Clinton-Gore tax increase of 1993. In addition to the MIT study, a new Congressional Budget Office study released recently, details how a carbon cap-and-trade system would result in massive wealth redistribution from the poor and working class to wealthier Americans. [Read more on CBO study] Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), EPW Ranking Member, said today: "Carbon caps would artificially and needlessly raise the cost of energy the most on the people least able to afford it. It astounds me that any Senator could support such a proposal." Read Senator Inhofe's full opening statement from today's EPW subcommittee hearing.

Comment: This is one more example of what is at the heart of the “green” movement; higher taxation and attacks on capitalism. Make no mistake about this is pure socialism. Left unchecked the oligarchs will ruin this country, tear down our sovereignty, and destroy our business competition, all the while the size of government and their power continues to grow. The 50 States must act and regain the power it lost through the 17^th Amendment and stop these oligarchs from further impairment to our nation.

Additional Information:

(S.309) Global Warming Pollution Reduction Act (Introduced in Senate)