Destroying the Economy

We see the economy struggling to recover. As it does, Congress and the Administration continue to erect roadblocks that will prevent it. They seek to place more and more burdens on businesses - large and small. Small business is the engine of our economy. Normally small businesses create about 70% of our new jobs. Currently, small businesses are creating almost all of our new jobs. Big business is standing back waiting to see what basic rules the government will change next.

Government has turned the world upside down with its business take-overs and business controls. New and higher taxes are being purposed. More and more, the government is telling businesses what they can and cannot do. Cap + Trade will strangle businesses unless they are one of the select few who will wildly profit from it. Small businesses will be devastated. Health care mandates will damage businesses and Congress ignores the fact that the vast majority of Americans do not want a large invasive government run plan. We want a smaller, less expensive privately run plan. Government, however, likes large, expensive legislation that increases its size and power.

As the federal government taxes and spends, seeking to extend its control of our lives and livelihoods, it is killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. If you destroy the economy, you are also destroying yourselves. Washington politicians remind me of the story of the frog and scorpion. The scorpion stings the frog even though he knows his actions will drown them both. When he was asked why he did it, he replied "It's the nature of a scorpion". It is the nature of politicians to seek more power and control even though they must know their greed will destroy the system that gives them their power.

Washington needs to control its nature and its urge to tax,spend, and increase its power and size. Can you think of the good of the country and be an American not a politician?

Signed,
The Electorate

Cap and Trade: Destroying an Economy

Constituents really want to believe that the members of Congress are all reasoning, intelligent people and that the welfare of the country is their top priority. Why in a deepening recession would any sensible, intelligent person vote for legislation that would dramatically increase the prices of all goods? Cap + Trade will do this. It can only result in more jobs cuts and further outsourcing of other jobs.

How can this help the economy? This country is on the brink of an economic disaster of unbelievable proportions. Congress should not be feeding the fire. Cap + Trade is economic suicide. Data shows it does very little to help the environment.

To accomplish little why are you seeking to destroy much? You will change a deep recession into a deep depression. Voting for Cap + Trade puts personal agenda before the good of the nation. I am appalled that any legislator would even consider a bill that includes Cap + Trade.

Signed,
The Electorate

Energy Bill: Results of Cap and Trade

Politicians are saying that the Energy Bill that includes Cap + Trade is first and foremost a jobs bill. That is like saying black is white. If a lie is big enough and repeated often enough, that does not make it any less of a lie. It will cause the loss of an unbelievable amount of jobs. Look to the economies that have tried this. Green jobs were created, but Cap + Trade so dramatically increased the price of all goods that many, many more jobs were lost. Can we not learn from their mistakes?

To stay in business, after Cap + Trade, companies will be forced to raise prices and cut costs. They will lower costs by cutting jobs. The higher prices will force people to buy less. Less merchandise will be needed, which will again force job cuts. Do you see a pattern? Isn't unemployment high enough? Does Congress have to make it worse?

Congress can pass legislation to develop new green energy and create new green jobs. It can do this with a bill that does not include Cap + Trade and save the jobs we have now.

Signed,
The Electorate

Cap & Trade, "Killing the Economy"

The House passed Cap + Trade. Shame on them! Now we must look to the Senate for some sanity. It is obvious that this bill will devastate the economy and deepen and lengthen the recession. It will cause increased unemployment and send more jobs overseas.

We are hurting out here! Why would any legislator vote for Cap + Trade??

Only four possibilities occur to me.

1/ They actually seek to further damage the economy, which would allow them to further extend governmental controls under the guise of crisis.

2/ They can not or will not oppose party leaders or policies.

3/ They are overly influenced by environmental lobbyists.

4/ They actually believe this legislation will help the environment even though facts show it will have little effect. We could drive Fred Flintstone cars and use candle light and it would only lower the carbon level in one hundred years by a fraction of one percent. We would be destroying ourselves for naught.

If we do not help ourselves, we can not help the world. Help us regain our economic strength.

Signed,
The Electorate

Please Vote Against the Energy Bill

To Congress,

Please do not vote for any energy bill that includes Cap + Trade.

Companies may pay this tax, but this tax will be passed along to us in much higher prices. Florida families and small businesses can not afford these government mandated higher prices. We are barely keeping our heads above water now.

Last year Florida polls showed that over 70% of Floridians supported the "all of the above" energy plan. We must develop new sources of energy, but we also must utilize current resources until these new sources are broadly available. We can't just squeak by using less until new sources are available. This would be economic suicide.

Signed,
The Electorate

Vote Against Cap and Trade

To Congress and the Public:

Soon Congress will be voting on an energy bill. I ask you to vote against any bill that includes Cap + Trade. It will have almost no effect on the environment - scientific data backs this up - but will have a devastating effect on the economy and the American people. It will increase federal revenue and make billions for the companies administering the plan, but it will do so on the backs of the American people - of all incomes.

This is a GAS TAX and an ELECTRIC TAX.

This tax may be paid by companies using fossil fuels, but we all know who will eventually pay this tax. It will be paid by people who need gas to drive to work and electricity to heat or cool their homes. It will be paid by people who need food to eat or clothes to wear. Cap + Trade will dramatically increase the prices of all these items. When costs go up, prices go up. We can not go out and buy new more fuel efficient cars. We can't afford to do this. "Cash for Clunkers" only pays for a fraction of the car. We can not afford the remaining cost.

Why is Congress encouraging us to go further in debt?

Please vote against any bill containing Cap + Trade. Do not place this further burden on the American public.

Signed,
The Electorate

Against Cap and Trade

American Solutions has a new commercial in the effort to stop the Cap and Trade bill that is being pushed through Congress.

The Markey-Waxman “Cap-and-trade” Energy Tax bill, in the current
form being considered by the House Energy and Commerce committee, would
have the following catastrophic effects by 2035:

1. Reduce aggregate gross domestic product (GDP) by $9.6 trillion annually;



2. Destroy 1,105,000 American jobs per year on average, with peak years seeing unemployment rise by over 2,479,000 jobs;



3. Raise electricity rates 90 percent after adjusting for inflation;



4. Raise inflation-adjusted gasoline prices by 74 percent;



5. Raise residential natural gas prices by 55 percent;



6. Raise an average family's annual energy bill by $1,500 annually; and



7. Increase inflation-adjusted federal debt by 26 percent, or $29,150 additional federal debt per person, again after adjusting for inflation.

Facts from: Heritage Foundation

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Signed,

Daughter of the Electorate

Cap and Trade is a bad idea

To Congress,

Including Cap + Trade in the Energy Bill would be a gigantic mistake. It would have a massive negative effect on our struggling economy. It places a tax on companies that use carbon fuel. This tax will be passed down to consumers in higher prices. The cost of gas and electricity would increase by at least 50%. The cost of other goods and services would increase because of their dependence on the same items. The economic effect would be dire.

Cap + Trade would only have a negligible effect on the environment. If we could wave a magic wand and overnight eliminate the use of carbon based fuels in the United States, it would only lower the carbon in the atmosphere by a fraction of one percent. We are not the main polluters. We would devastate our economy while accomplishing virtually nothing. Cap + Trade will dramatically harm this country.

Signed,
The Electorate

Proposed Taxes

From a letter sent May 29, 2009.

Congress is considering new taxes on the lower and middle classes. They are considering taxing medical benefits as income. Cap + Trade is an enormous tax on gas and electricity. The price of gas and utility bills will increase by a minimum of 50%. There will be a domino effect and the cost of other goods and services will also increase. A value added tax is being considered. This is nothing but a national sales tax placed on goods before purchase. This tax will not effect the rich, but will really hurt the lower and middle classes. It will effect what and how much we can buy. This will really lower the consumer confidence level.

The problem is not that taxes are too low. The problem is that Congress is spending too much. Income tax revenue is down by one-third. China does want to lend us anymore money. The Fed has already printed too much money that is not backed. Taxing the rich is not bringing in enough revenue. Congress, however, has all these nifty new ideas that they really, really want to try. That is why Congress is considering these new taxes that are directed at the lower and middle classes - even though it will further hurt our faltering economy. Put the country FIRST and forget ideologies. NO new taxes. Curb your spending as everyone else has been forced to do. Be responsible.