Cap, trade, Tax, and Coal

By Randy Walters and Jeff Smith
http://coalfedfamilies.com/

Once again the politicians want more tax money to squander. This time it’s Cap and Trade legislation as is being supported by Republican Senator Lindsay Graham of South Carolina.

In the name of “Climate Change” they want to tax the industries of the nation who produce energy by using coal, or any industry that emits carbon. A tax of this type will stifle economic growth, allow some to profit from the sale of unused carbon credits, and punish everyone with higher prices on everything and all this during what might be the greatest economic decline since the Great Depression!.

Any product produced by the use of electricity will cost more, and that is everything. Everything from heat and air for our homes to the food we buy will cost substantially more. The truth of business is that corporations pass cost increases along to the customers, and this will be no different. Businesses have to pass along the costs or they die and we have no jobs. It is the private sector that creates the jobs, not the government.

As a result of Al Gore and the environmental movement, Obama’s EPA, and our totally ignorant congress our quality of life will be diminished under the false claim of “Saving the environment.” Americans will be faced with choices. Electric bills will soar to the point that some will have to choose between having the heat on, and being able to afford food or medicine. All of us will see the quality or our lives diminished, and all in the name of a propaganda movement called man-made global warming.

In the coalfields the work will slow down, but the cost of living will increase. Our families here will suffer. Those who mine coal will mine less, if they mine at all, and those who depend on the coal miners and truck drivers to buy things will have much fewer customers.

Cap and Trade is another of Obama’s socialist ideas designed to enslave the American people. He, and the rest of the politicians have spent us into tremendous debt, and like addicts, they want more. Their addiction will transform America into a third world wasteland both politically and environmentally “correct”.