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From: speck6085@aol.com
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 05:44
Subject: Fwd: Gas Tax: The Left's Denial
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From: American Solutions, Vince Haley
To: speck6085@aol.com
Sent: Thu, May 20, 2010 5:06 pm
Subject: Gas Tax: The Left's Denial
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Dear George,
The Secular-Socialist Machine is so intent on expanding the reach of government that they are in denial about the new taxes they plan to impose.
Senator John Kerry, one of the chief advocates for the government take-over of the energy sector recently said of his energy tax bill, "There is no gas tax, never was a gas tax, will not be a gas tax, I don't know where that came from, but it is just wrong. Period."
If that wasn't clear enough, he went on to say, "There is no gas tax, we didn't contemplate a gas tax, there will not be a gas tax, the gas tax is 18.4 cents today and it will be that when this bill is passed."
If only those statements corresponded to reality.
A new study by Point Carbon shows that the Global Warming Bill authored by John Kerry (D-MA) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) amounts to a new gasoline tax on American motorists. As The Hill newspaper reports:
Oil refiners would not participate in the trading system but would purchase allowances based on historic sales figures set aside each quarter. The companies would pass those costs onto consumers, resulting in the higher gas costs.
Even Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the bill's original sponsors, says that the fees "will be passed on" to consumers in the form of higher prices at the pump.
If Senator Kerry doesn't want to call the higher costs passed on to consumers because of his bill a gas tax, what would the Senator suggest we call these higher costs that arise as a direct result of his legislation?
The fact is that Senator Kerry's bill would introduce an entirely new tax system to America called "cap and trade", which in turn influences how large the gas tax would be from year to year.
The cap and trade tax system would tax energy, and the cap and trade tax system would be every bit as comprehensive and complex and subject to endless tax increases by future Congresses as our current income tax system has shown itself to be.
Cap and trade is not a one-time tax. It is a new system of taxation and will allow the Congress to expand endlessly into taxing every aspect of America's energy economy.
The Point Carbon study estimated this new energy tax will amount to $350 billion by 2020. But if a new cap and trade energy tax system passes this year, there is nothing to prevent a future Congress from increasing it next year, just as Congress is currently discussing increasing a whole array of new taxes.
The liberals in Congress continue to deny that they are trying to impose new taxes on energy, including taxes on gas, diesel, and other transportation fuels.
That's why we need you to tell your friends and family about the gas tax by using this "forward-to-a-friend" tool.
Sincerely,
Vince Haley
P.S. Greece introduced a cap and trade energy tax system in 2005. The price of a gallon of gasoline in Greece is now approximately $7/gallon. Increasing the cost of energy in Greece has not worked out very well for the Greek economy, as the world has noted in recent weeks. The devastated Greek economy has also not been saved by so called "green jobs", which was one of the many promises made by supporters of European cap and trade tax system when it was first introduced. It seems that European elites failed to appreciate that for every "green job" that is created with taxpayer funding, there is a corresponding - and greater- loss of jobs that are destroyed by higher energy costs and exported elsewhere.
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