Vote NO on the Climate Security Act!
Mark Johnson 5 months ago // Potluck Gibber-gabber

TO: Senator Barbara Boxer, Constitution Avenue and 2nd Street, NE, Washington, DC 20510-0505

Dear Senator Boxer,

I have been listening to the news reports, and I understand that you will soon be voting on S. 3036, the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2008. I urge you to oppose this bill and the dramatic increases
in energy costs and the government’s control over my daily life that it would impose!

I know YOU do not pay for your own gasoline, but I do.

I know that you believe in the “man made”global warming crap, but I do not and neither does anyone that has at least half a brain to examine the evidence,

This legislation is a cap-and-trade plan that attempts to limit greenhouse gas emissions. But what it really will do is place severe regulatory burdens on domestic industry, impede trade, and harm the
nation’s economy.

Cap-and-trade is nothing more than a HUGE hidden tax, as the Congressional Budget Office has estimated that this bill would raise costs on energy use by $1.2 trillion by 2018.

A TAX BY ANOTHER NAME IS STILL A TAX – then again, that is the new function of government – to tax the governed.

S. 3036 significantly grows the government by giving more power to bureaucrats, such as requiring the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a greenhouse gas (GHG) registry, create a GHG emission
allowance transfer system, and set emission allowances for 2012-2050. New agencies the legislation would create include the Climate Change Credit Corporation, which will auction emission allowances, and the
Carbon Market Efficiency Board, which will observe and report on the national GHG emission market.

If this is your way of lowering the jobless rate, I can think of better ways to do it – hiring people to BUILD THE BORDER FENCE would be one option.

This government expansion will eventually dictate every aspect of commercial and individual energy use. Ultimately, the cap-and-trade system will be open to manipulation, with politicians and bureaucrats
picking winners (their friends and campaign contributors) and losers (ALL OF US – THE MIDDLE CLASS) in the energy market.

Some argue that cap-and-trade is environmentalism. But this kind of environmentalism is nothing more than an elite command-and-control system that will kill prosperity.

CAN YOU SPELL SOCIALISM?

Again, I urge you to reject S. 3036, or go sit by Maxine Waters.

Sincerely,

Mr. mark johnson

Have your own thoughts on the climate security act? Visit Council for Citizens Against Government Waste and then tell your representatives .

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