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All of you are quoting the corporate line as taught to you by whatever your favorite RW sources are.
Look, the corporate polluters have a choice;
They can continue to pollute, and pay more as a result.
They can clean up and avoid the extra cost.
Consider it this way...
The air, the sky, the water and the environment are NOT corporate properties. They're PUBLIC assets. They belong to America, not Monsanto or Dow Chemical. If these corporations are going to use those resources irresponsibly, they should pay. They've had decades to police themselves and they've utterly failed to do so. I firmly believe they should clean up after themselves.
Now they can either clean up, or pay, and I think they should. You guys are spewing every canned argument the corporate machine has tossed out for years.
You will have to pay a high tax on all energy , pay more for any car , a fee to inspect your house for energy waste if you sell and so on. We all will pay clean or dirty . Do us all a favor and read the bill . You don't have to be a fool forever .
Since you've read the bill, please post links to the provisions that are making you foam at the mouth.
Between, cap & trade, the 'Buy American' provision in that trade bill which Obama recently signed, the new health-care bill, and the new CAFE standards for autos, Obama is turning into 'Dr. Job-Killer', and 'Obama The Outsourcing Machine'.
The top three lifelines of the Democratic Party (environmentalists/trial lawyers/unions) have killed and/or outsourced hundreds of thousands of jobs over the past few decades.
Between, cap & trade, the 'Buy American' provision in that trade bill which Obama recently signed, the new health-care bill, and the new CAFE standards for autos, Obama is turning into 'Dr. Job-Killer', and 'Obama The Outsourcing Machine'.
The top three lifelines of the Democratic Party (environmentalists/trial lawyers/unions) have killed and/or outsourced hundreds of thousands of jobs over the past few decades.
One of President Bush's top economic advisers sought Thursday to clarify remarks he made earlier in the week
"Now, to get back to the question about outsourcing, I think outsourcing is a growing phenomenon, but it's something that we should realize is probably a plus for the economy in the long run," Mankiw said.
Don't want cap and trade? Tough. You had decades to clean yourselves up and you did nothing. When you won't act responsibly, you can expect someone to force you to.
I'm curious, excluding CO2, as a percentage how much do you think the most common air pollutants within the US have increased over the the last 3 decades?
How about this, anyone want to take a guess? I didn't know what it was until I looked it up myself. As evident by your posts you would expect it to be up significantly since then because we are constantly bombarded with the ever increasing pollution problem from the media, so what do you think it is?
How about this, anyone want to take a guess? I didn't know what it was until I looked it up myself. As evident by your posts you would expect it to be up significantly since then because we are constantly bombarded with the ever increasing pollution problem from the media, so what do you think it is?
Its down since then, but comparing it to a few decades ago, when you couldn't walk outside without coughing in some parts of the country is just plain silly. Nor does that mean we shouldn't do more.
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