Comments on: Cap and tax — another horrible bipartisan idea http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2008/06/02/cap-and-tax-another-horrible-bipartisan-idea/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:51:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: gs http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2008/06/02/cap-and-tax-another-horrible-bipartisan-idea/#comment-312152 gs Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:03:18 +0000 http://www.dinocrat.com/?p=6480#comment-312152 <i>We thought it could never get this bad, politicians willing to hurt the economy, and thus the average citizen, to the tune of hundreds of billions or trillions of dollars to solve a problem that may well not even exist.</i> As a means to benefit the nation and public, cap and trade is counterproductive. As a pretext to expand the power and prerogatives of the upper castes, it is serviceable. ************** To date, no populist politician has seized this obvious issue. It would be interesting to identify the obstacles that have been put in place--quite deliberately, I have little doubt--to prevent such a ball from getting rolling. We thought it could never get this bad, politicians willing to hurt the economy, and thus the average citizen, to the tune of hundreds of billions or trillions of dollars to solve a problem that may well not even exist.

As a means to benefit the nation and public, cap and trade is counterproductive. As a pretext to expand the power and prerogatives of the upper castes, it is serviceable.
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To date, no populist politician has seized this obvious issue. It would be interesting to identify the obstacles that have been put in place–quite deliberately, I have little doubt–to prevent such a ball from getting rolling.

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