cap and tax

8.9: news.pol/cap and tax:

. some of the same forces opposing the health care reform
are also angry with cap-and-tax as being a job loser .
. it's a tax to promote the use of
energy sources that don't contribute to global warming
-- this is a big deal to the rest of the world
although a major initial drawback is that
there is not getting china to cooperate
and they will continue to get our jobs
unless we also have some laws that keep our corparations
employing our citizens .
. the gov could use the tax money to invest in better energy sources
so the long-term prospects of this bill are very good;
but the current players are going to lose their fat seats .
. heritage.org paints a bleak picture of huge job loses 20years out .

. a wall st jou editorial
says we either cut services
or we are going to need to tax the middle class more .
Obama Drops Health Care Reform 8/4/2009
wsj is saying the admn is saying the new strategy is not health care
but health insur needing reform
-- demonizing an industry?
they need regulation just like cities need police .
. manditory insurance is the main target .
. wsj (Weight of the Nation 8/3/2009)
talked about the staggering costs of our nation gaining so much weight
esp'ly since the advent of corn syrup in all the food since the 70's .
. safeway started an accountability campaign
where the employees got cheaper health premiums for keeping weight .
. getting weight is much less invasive than getting blood lipid numbers!

freedomworks.org on health care
. "(Trial lawyers, government mandates, and tax code distortions
are what is making health care too expensive )?
they must be kidding!
if a society insists on manditory health care,
they must pay for it either with charity (gov)
or manditory health insurance .
. in case you couldn't find an advocate for vampires,
here it is at freedomworks.org:
"(

it was revealed that massive beverage tax hikes are planned
to fund part of the $1.5 trillion dollar tab
their socialization of health care is expected to run up
over the next 10 years.
Specifically, they're looking at
increasing the tax on a bottle of wine by 233 percent.
The beer tax would go up 145 percent per six-pack.
The liquor tax would go up 19 percent to $2.54 per fifth.
And an entirely new tax is proposed for [sugar-sweetened beverages]
-- including soda, fruit and vegetable dinks, sports drinks,
iced teas and coffees, and flavored milk and dairy drinks.
This planned beverage tax hike
not only leaves *us* with less money during a recession,
it will also be a *job* killer, [mr.job from the bible?]
particularly in the hard-hit hospitality industry, [hospi- what?]
where unemployment is already over 11 percent.
In an industry that has already lost around 400,000 jobs in this downturn,
a new tax that could destroy an estimated 160,000 more jobs
is a terrible idea.

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. oh, my god, I just lost another soda !

FreedomWorks` Tea Party Patriots:

"(

The lobbyist-run groups Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks,
which orchestrated the anti-Obama tea parties earlier this year,
are now pursuing an aggressive strategy
to create an image of mass public opposition to health care
and clean energy reform.
A leaked memo from Bob MacGuffie,
a volunteer with the FreedomWorks website Tea Party Patriots,
details how members should be infiltrating town halls
and harassing Democratic members of Congress .

) .