Is the duty of our government not the welfare of its people? Is the government not obligated to better the lives of its own citizens? Are elected officials not supposed to care for the citizens they represent? Why then is our president, Barack Obama, agreeing to send $100 billion to China and India ...
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Chris Schultheis
on 07-10-2009
Filed under: wasteful spending, energy, Barack Obama, environmentalists
"I think if you get into the way it was written, it's a huge tax and there's no sense calling it anything else. I mean, it is a tax ." So says Warren Buffett , Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and perhaps even more importantly, one of the President's biggest supporters in the economic...
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Despina Karras
on 06-28-2009
Filed under: energy, cap and trade, capitalism, free market, stimulus package, government spending, taxes, stimulus, job losses, tax issues, economic crisis, regulation, unemployment, green jobs, cap and tax, consumers, economics, environmentalists
As the stimulus was passed, news was made about a clean-coal plant in Illinois that was a championed pet project of President Obama when he was Senator Obama. It was emphasized over and over again that although the plant could use money, it would not receive favoritism in the form of earmarks or special...
Back in April, The Weekly Standard 's John McCormack set the record straight over claims that Republicans' lied about how much cap and trade would cost the average household. They put the cost at $3,128, which was based on an MIT study. The number was refuted by MIT professor John Reilly, who...
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Matt Margolis
on 05-19-2009
Filed under: energy, cap and trade, Heritage Foundation