The Democrats have called a vote on their Tax on Trade Bill this Friday. It is officially titled Cap and Trade Bill, but it is really a tax on trade bill. It is a massive tax increase on anyone who uses energy in the United States. Since that includes everyone, it is a massive tax increase on the American public. The problem is that most people are not aware that the bill even exists. Of those that are aware that the bill exists only a few really know what the bill would do to us in the form of taxes.

The bill is being sold as a bill to control greenhouse gases. Since greenhouse gases cause global warming, a hoax by the way, controlling greenhouse gases will control global warming. If the bill is made law the change in temperature 50 years from today would amount to less than one degree Fahrenheit. In the process the massive taxes would cripple or destroy the entire economy of the United States. It would make it impossible to use energy in any meaningful way. Commuting would be a thing of the past. Using energy to heat and cool homes would come to a screeching halt. Most people could not afford the taxes. Layoffs would create millions of newly poor Americans. Even the “rich” would not be immune from these higher taxes. They would lose their ability to earn money and suffer economic losses. The United States would become a third world country with an economy below that of 90% of the world economies. We would find out what it means to be poor. Right now our poor are considered rich in many countries.

The increase in taxes on energy is staggering. The amounts range from 54-90%. That amount of increase would cause huge problems for most Americans. The estimated amount of increase for the average family is estimated to be $1500 by the Congressional Budget Office. By independent organizations, I have seen numbers that put the increase for the average family of up to $3500. I don’t know about your family, but my family could not afford to pay out an additional $1500-3500 per year just to pay taxes. That would drive us from the middle class to the poor class in no time flat.

Outside of Congress, the EPA is trying to do much the same thing. The attorney that won the case allowing the EPA to regulate carbon dioxide is now working at the EPA to establish new regulations regulating carbon dioxide. The regulations would basically make the EPA a legislature and executive office at the same time. They would establish laws for you to live under and then enforce those laws. Right now, those powers are split between the legislative and executive portions of government for a reason. That reason is to avoid abuse of the system. EPA is proposing to go around the Constitution and do both functions. This has to stop. The EPA has one type of function and they should stick to that function. They should not be a legislative branch of government. That is reserved for Congress, not the EPA. They also are not an enforcement arm of laws that they make themselves. This abuse needs to be stopped. We do not even know how Congress wants the issue treated and EPA is going to make everyone dance to their tune. That is not right.

Everyone is jumping the gun. First of all, carbon dioxide has little effect on the temperature of the earth. It is a greenhouse gas. It does help the temperature rise to a certain point. After that point, it has no effect at all. For the first third of one percent it has an effect on temperature, however minor. After that level is reached, the increase in carbon dioxide has no effect at all. That has been proven by the increase in carbon dioxide levels since 1970. The carbon dioxide level has increased steadily since 1970 and the temperature went up until 1998. After 1998, the temperature has gone down. If carbon dioxide was as big a player as global warmers believe, the temperature would have continued to rise. It has not risen, but fallen, which disproves their theory.

Global warming is all a hoax anyway. There is no truth to the theories that are proposed for global warming or the new global climate change idea. The climate always changes. It is always going up or down and the actor in whether it goes up or down is the sun, not carbon dioxide. The second biggest player is water vapor. Carbon dioxide comes in on the less around number 10 or 11. If we were serious, we would try and do something about the top ones on the list, not number 10 or 11. Go tell your friendly global warmer to take a flying leap and then tell the Democrat Congressman to vote against the Cap and Trade tax bill. If enough of us do that, we can defeat this monstrosity. That will save our economy to live another day.

The EPA is out of its mind. It has a proposal to tax greenhouse gases out for review. Since greenhouse gases are all naturally produced, there would be some difficulty determining all the sources is one problem with this stupid proposal. But, they propose to tax agriculture on greenhouse emissions. For smaller animals like hogs, the tax would be $20 per year. For the largest animals the tax would be over $100 per year. The Agriculture Department, to its credit, came out with a statement that taxing family farms would cause an undue hardship and probably cause most of them to fail. That is true. Most family farms operate hand to mouth and have absolutely no room for an additional tax.

This tax on greenhouse gases would include taxes on everything that moves because vehicles emit carbon dioxide. If we were somewhere near the maximum level for carbon dioxide I could see some attempt to limit the amount of carbon dioxide. The upper limit of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that plants can handle is 6%. We are currently at 0.363%. And, contrary to popular opinion, that level is not rising rapidly. It is rising, but at a very low level. Why is it not rising faster after record levels of carbon dioxide produced each year? Because as the carbon dioxide level increases, the ability of the plants to use the carbon dioxide increases, this keeps the rise to modest levels.

  Since our new President has bought into this global warming hoax, some increase in taxes is inevitable. The whole purpose of the global warming hoax is to increase the scope of government. The goal of Barack Obama is to increase the scope of government in the United States. The two goals meld completely into one goal. Both want the same thing, so of course Barack Obama supports global warming. The surprise would be if he actually knew something about science and did not support global warming. That would be a shock.

Barack Obama announced recently that he was going to increase the employment in the US by 3 million jobs. He also said that 80% of those jobs would be in the private sector. That means that 600,000 of those jobs would be in government. We have too many government workers right now. If he said that he was going to increase employment by 3 million jobs and decrease government by 600,000 jobs that would be a program I could support.

Putting Obama’s employment goal and greenhouse emissions into the same equation, some of those jobs would undoubtedly come in an agency that would have as its sole purpose to control issues dealing with the completely mythical global warming. This agency would have nothing to do, so would be really suffocating to deal with for anybody.

On a side note, the Polar Bear was listed as endangered a couple of months ago because the ice was disappearing. There is a little fact that is getting in the way of that listing, the ice levels are at record highs. That will not stop the global warming nuts from using that listing to try and destroy the economy of the United States. It should give the people that made the listing cause to delist the Polar Bear from the endangered list. The Polar Bear is not endangered. There are more Polar Bears today than there were 30 years ago or 50 years ago. There are more today than probably as far back as you care to go. The Polar Bear is thriving, not disappearing. Listing them on the endangered species list was a travesty.

We are going to see more of this kind of thing over the next four years. Democrats are big government types and big government types see the need for government everywhere. So, grab hold of your wallet and get ready for a wild ride. Hopefully, they will outdo themselves with excess and people will get tired of all the extra fees and taxes they will have to pay. Until then, we just have to grin and bear it. We can fight what we can, but Democrats are in the majority and we cannot stop everything. We should be able to keep the really stupid things out of the mix, or at least I hope so.