My daughter was in a very short version of the play Annie with her Girl Scout Troop-at day camp.
At one point, after Big Daddy Warbucks invites President Roosevelt over for dinner he turns to his assistant and says, “Oh and Grace, find out what Democrats eat?”
I laughed out loud. I’m not sure why I found it so funny. I Just thought I’d share that.
Democrats are talking about ‘Energy independence’ as if it is attainable. When were the words “Democrat” and “independence” ever linked successfully in any stated policy of the left? Aren’t liberals obsessed with taking money from people who are financially independent and giving it to people who are not? Does this create fiscal independence? It does the exact opposite. And their energy policies are no different.
Democrat policies are all designed to take the independent action of free choice, remove the words free , and call it progress. Even their favorite “choice,” abortion, is a federally mandated one, such that the people of the several States can make no independent moral decision about whether or not it should even be a choice for their citizens. The science is settled!
So while the energy situation should be improved, to accomplish this we must use what is available to us now, so we can afford the luxury of other choices in the future. Unfortunately Democrats have decided that “independence” can only come if we limit our choices to theirs.
John Lynch has introduced a broad based tax on New Hampshire and most of us don’t even know it. By signing up for the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative(RGGI), Lynch will now be taxing us through our utility companies. The money earned by the state from energy providers in the form of carbon offsets, will raise the rates on electricity. So every home owner, renter, and business in New Hampshire, without exception, will now be hit hard by Lynch’s new shadow tax.
One justification in the independent report is that the extra income Cap and Trade provides to the state more than makes up for the increase to rate payers and could “even be used to offset the rate increase.” That’s right, it’s OK for the Democrats to make the rates go up because there might be some left over to give back. And I guess it’s also OK for the Governor to drive up the cost of everything else as businesses try to adjust for the increased cost of doing business at the expense of everyone in the state? You know there is actually a reference somewhere–which I can’t seem to find–that claims this scam will increase jobs. Where, in the government? Between this and Lynch’s business taxes we’ll be Lucky if we don’t lose jobs. Oh, but this is good for New Hampshire!
Democrats just don’t get that any money a State collects is extra. It all belongs to “The People!” The last thing this budget-obese administration needs is another feeding tube, and now, by laundering tax dollars through increased electric rates from the utility companies, any market changes in the cost of offsets will increase state income without any elected representative ever casting a single vote. This amounts to even less fiscal transparency in State government and can’t be much different from taxation without representation.
Governor Lynch has probably just violated your constitutional rights. I think he should pay for it.
