Politicians and Cows - They All Smell The Same
by Thomas D. Segel (5/6/09)
Harlingen, Texas, May 3, 2009: A Harris Poll that reports 77% of the population does not trust our politicians or political parties. 55% of the people don’t trust government and 62% of the folks don’t trust the reporting of the mainstream media.
Having those numbers as a backdrop we read the government is moving ahead on establishing a carbon tax or as they like to camouflage it “cap and trade”. Our political double speakers tell us that it will only impact those businesses that emit excessive carbon dioxide. These companies will be given a limit or a “cap” and if that is exceeded will be taxed accordingly. The politicos are quick to indicate this is a business tax and isn’t going to have much of an impact on the average citizen. Now that is a change we can all believe in.
We are heading for another attack on individual piggy banks just as sure as we have already been given an unpayable tax debt. According to the number crunchers at the CBO, when the ultra trillions of tax debt dollars are spread around for you and I to pay off, it will total out an extra $163,000 in taxes levied on each family. If the interest is added in for the projected ten year deficit and we make annual payments, instead of the lump sum $163K figure, than on top of our regular family income tax, we can just add an additional tax hike of $26,000 a year per tax paying family. Now this doesn’t even figure in increased taxation that will be brought about by universal health care, repairing Social Security and whatever our share ends up to be on this carbon tax or cap and trade nightmare. But, the politicos of our nation will keep telling us the mathematicians of the Congressional Budget Office have got it all wrong. It won’t be nearly that painful, they will insist. And we already know just how much the American people trust the words of our politicians.
So, right now CO2 or carbon dioxide is the villain being attacked by the Obama Administration. The claim is that 40% of the United States carbon dioxide emissions are created when we burn fossil fuels. This totals out to a figure in excess of 6,000 metric tons of CO2 annually. The other claim is you and I are individually responsible for more than 20 metric tons a year due to the way we live. Even homeless people with no automobile and living in cardboard boxes create 8.5 metric tons of CO2…and this needs to stop because the worldwide average is only 4 metric tons per person. So, when even our homeless people have double the worldwide carbon footprint, how much are we going to be taxed to make it smaller?
One thing we forgot to mention is the second leading greenhouse gas. It is methane. Methane is created in huge amounts by cow burps and flatulence. Humans, all animals and even termites also create methane. It is twenty times more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere than CO2 and there has been a lot of chewing around the edges by the political elite to find some way of making sure it is well taxed. They will most likely start with the estimated 6 million cattle we have in America. I don’t believe they have found a way to tax the termites yet. How does all that upcoming change sound now?
Semper Fidelis,
Thomas D. Segel
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