{"id":6657,"date":"2009-09-16T19:43:22","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T19:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/09\/obama-administration-cap-and-t.html"},"modified":"2009-09-16T19:43:22","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T19:43:22","slug":"obama-administration-cap-and-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/09\/obama-administration-cap-and-t.html","title":{"rendered":"Obama administration: Cap-and-tax will cost each household $1761 per year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, lookey here! The Obama administration has to admit (because of the Freedom of Information Act) how much the cap and tax will cost the average American and it ain&#8217;t cheap!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Obama administration has privately concluded that a cap and trade law would cost American taxpayers up to $200 billion a year, the equivalent of hiking personal income taxes by about 15 percent.<br \/>\nA previously unreleased analysis prepared by the U.S. Department of Treasury says the total in new taxes would be between $100 billion to $200 billion a year. At the upper end of the administration&#8217;s estimate, the cost per American household would be an extra $1,761 a year. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you but we can&#8217;t afford it things are pretty tight and with losing the Bush tax cuts, it&#8217;s going to be even worse. Of course they&#8217;ll spend billions giving the poor a hand (which they should since they&#8217;re overburdening them) but they won&#8217;t help the middle class who is constantly getting squeezed. Just what we need in a recession.<br \/>\nAnd really, what does our $1761 buy us?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;They&#8217;re not telling you the cost &#8212; they&#8217;re not telling you the benefit,&#8221; says Horner, who wrote the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1596985011?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=lifeunderth0d-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1596985011\">The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=lifeunderth0d-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1596985011\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/>. &#8220;If they don&#8217;t tell you the cost, and they don&#8217;t tell you the benefit, what are they telling you? They&#8217;re just talking about global salvation.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How do we know when the planet is saved?<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/09\/16\/obama-admin-cap-and-trade-will-cost-families-1761-per-year\/\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, lookey here! The Obama administration has to admit (because of the Freedom of Information Act) how much the cap and tax will cost the average American and it ain&#8217;t cheap! The Obama administration has privately concluded that a cap and trade law would cost American taxpayers up to $200 billion a year, the equivalent&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[405,399],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment-2","category-politics-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Obama administration: Cap-and-tax will cost each household $1761 per year - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/09\/obama-administration-cap-and-t.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Obama administration: Cap-and-tax will cost each household $1761 per year - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Well, lookey here! 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