When they weren’t trying to orchestrate massive new taxes on health care, Democrats in Congress spent much of last year trying to push through massive new energy taxes. They jammed their scheme, called cap-and-trade, through the House before the Senate heard the opposition of the American people and the legislation stalled.
The plan Democrats devised would have raised the price of energy and every product or service that uses energy — in other words, pretty much everything. It would have destroyed jobs, expanded the federal bureaucracy and done almost nothing to help the environment or to reduce our nation’s dependence on foreign oil.
Like the health care bill, it was a monstrosity that would not have solved the problems it set out to fix and instead would have harmed our economy and the well-being of American families. And just as we saw during the health care debate, when Democrats realized they faced overwhelming opposition from the American people, they looked for a way to ram through their policies anyway.
In the case of cap-and-trade, the Obama administration is now trying to sneak its plan past Congress and the American people by issuing new rules through the Environmental Protection Agency. Under the guise of regulating greenhouse gases, administration officials are slipping in through the back door what they couldn’t get in through the front: a massive energy tax on families and small businesses.
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