If anyone actually believed the ambiguous statement that people making under 250,000 dollars a year will be unaffected, at least tax-wise, by the cap and trade legislation, the energy company SRP has something else in mind. In a preemptive company statement they've announced that, in the event of the cap and trade going through the Senate and into practice, they'll increase standard rates by about 9%, an average increase of about 150 dollars per home, to accommodate the increased costs that come with the bill.
Additionally, there's talk now in Congress of banning any and all forms of tobacco consumption in the U.S. military by any person in uniform. The rationale is that, because military healthcare is paid for out of public funds/taxes (an issue to be reexamined in itself) they now have an obligation to stay healthy.
Four soldiers recently died in Mr. Obama's Afghanistan war, I wonder if it was smoking which killed them? No no, it was a bomb. I'm just curious how they think this will at all go over well. This is more brilliant than Wilson and Co.'s idea to directly take America's money (via the income tax) and then simultaneously prohibit them from drinking their sorrows away (prohibition). Maybe 50 years down the road people will appreciate the thought, but that is unlikely because 50 years down the road, people will be crushed trying to pay off the debt and potential medicare expenses being accrued now, while simultaneously waiting in lin to have their crushed backs examined.
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