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Why does the Waxman bill now propose allocating only 2% of the carbon permits to the refining industry?

This seems to me to be a way of adding a fuel tax at the pump which will show up in everything we use or consume from cars to cabbage! This cap and trade proposal seems to me to be just a stealth consumption tax which will ultimately be paid "only" by individuals! Even if CO2 is a problem, this seems to be the wrong solution!

http://energycommerce.house.gov/Press_111/20090515...

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  • Nata T
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago
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    you got it. It is a tax on the upper wage earners pure and simple. the net effect is the rich will always find a way not to pay the tax. For example, I'm setting up a dummy company that will allow me to take a tax right off of my added hidden taxes, net effect I'll only pay 60% of the tax while the rest of suckers pay 100%.

  • 1 decade ago

    Plants must have CO2 to recycle it to O2 for us.

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