Cap and Trade or Tax and Take

I have recently had a back and forth with a friend of mine about the beauties of "Cap and Trade". I, as a conservative, am against any new type of tax. Any tax for that matter. Especially those that are going to be a detriment to the city and state that I live in.

I do not support the idea of global warming. Never have, never will. And this was before I began educating myself on the matter. The earth just isn't getting hotter. It isn't. We have four seasons in the area of the United States where I live and we always have. Sometimes our winters are mild and other times they aren't. We break records for heat and other years we don't. Currently its been a mild summer. Although this past winter and the few before have gotten progressively colder. I guess that is why we are now straying from calling it global warming to calling it "Climate Change". Well no shit, the climate does change. We go from winter to spring to summer and fall. Always has.

Anyway lets now focus on Cap and Trade. So what the government wants to do is tax any company emitting carbon dioxide. Have them pay to waste and force environmental restrictions on them so that we will all have a higher quality of air to breathe. Couple of major problems that I see in this environmental hoax.

If we stop emitting all forms of CO2 wont plants die? And don't plants use the CO2 and sunlight to photosynthesize, thus releasing oxygen into the air? Isn't that the very clean oxygen that is sustaining our lives? And if the plants die don't we lose that oxygen and die ourselves? So by enforcing "Cap and Trade" aren't we in turn killing ourselves?

Now I live in a state that has a large economy based on the use of coal and natural gas. If we tax the crap out of these plants won't they shut down? Or will they have to raise the costs of these services to balance out their profits? I am not the brightest man but I do know companies aren't in business to lose money. Does your mom and pop diner charge for food or do they give it away? So how do these companies offset taxes? They raise costs to the consumer. Now the government is saying that is only $172 per year. which amounts to a little over $10 per month. Bullshit. Some research groups are saying this tax can increase consumer costs by up to $500 per year. The government has never estimated anything right. Every project ever done comes in late and over budget and we are expected to believe it is only going to be a measly $10 per month? Obama himself before getting elected stated that increasing taxes on CO2 emitting companies will cause the costs of these services to skyrocket. And now they are trying to spin it so we accept the increase.

Here is the bottom line on this "Cap and Trade" issue. The government wants to tax us all into bankruptcy so that they can control us. Government by its very nature is controlling. We set up our checks and balances to avoid this type of control and we need to keep it separated and in check. Taxes only stunt growth and reduce prosperity. And when governments can't think of any other ways to grow the economy they tax more. So if "Cap and Trade" only takes $10 a month this year in five it will take $50 and continue to increase. Once government has a foothold on an industry they run it into the ground and destroy all the positives that industry could have been.

Think of the families devastated by the high cost increases of these taxes. Think of the jobs lost due to plan cuts to pay for the taxes they have to compensate for. This is just another scheme to get more of our money so the government can misappropriate the funds on reelection campaigns.

And before you begin to think I am a total earth destroyer I do believe in conservation. I don't think we just need to burn for the sake of making a product cheaper. I think we should have higher emission standards. But not at the high cost to the taxpayer that gets hit on both ends. Tax us in our paychecks, then tax us with the utility bills, and then tax us at the register. Its just not fair.