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Is Charles “Icarus” Johnson supporting Cap and Trade?

by Phantom Ace ( 45 Comments › )
Filed under Blogwars, LGF, Liberal Fascism at June 26th, 2009 - 10:46 pm

Washed up Jazz Musician and Radical Marxist, Charles Foster “Icarus” Johnson is testing the waters on the Cap and Trade bill. He has a post on the Cap and Trade scam bill passing the house. He does not give a direct opinion however his post emphasizes something in the last paragraph that gives a clue.

Cap-and-Trade Passes House Politics | Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:31:12 pm PDT

The Waxman-Markey climate change bill has passed the House, but faces an uncertain fate in the Senate.

UPDATE at 6/26/09 4:34:28 pm:

Some scientists are opposed to the bill — because they believe it’s weak legislation that won’t fix anything: Should Congress pass Waxman-Markey?

The key is the last paragraph:

Some scientists are opposed to the bill — because they believe it’s weak legislation that won’t fix anything

Is Charles saying he is against it because it’s not tough enough or is he testing the opinions at LGF? One poster asked him a question, which he has not replied.

17 CynicalConservative6/26/2009 4:37:32 pm PDT

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Charles, I’m honestly interested in your opinion on this.

Why is Charles’s opinion important on this? It is obvious, people at LGF will repeat whatever Icarus dictates and are awaiting his opinion. As of now most of the comments are against the Cap and Trade Bill. deranged  Icarus Groupie, Andrea is against it as of now.

4   Sharmuta6/26/2009 4:32:55 pm PDT >

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Bastards!

As soon as Icarus declares his opinion Andrea will parrot it, since she has no mind of her own. Charles is playing it slick here, he is observing the opinions of his followers and will determine the appropriate time to tell them what they should believe. For now, they are against it, but once Icarus gives his opinion they will follow his lead.

My take, he is against it because “Scientists” don’t think it is enough. However if it passes he will support it because he will say something is better than nothing. This man is a weather-vane and a miserable waste of humanity. If Aliens landed and used Icarus as a specimen for life on Earth, they would conclude there is no intelligent life forms on Earth.

Welfare Queen, Irish Rose still hasn’t commented. She is seeing how this will effect her food stamps and WIC checks.

Update: here is a picture that accurately describes Charles “Icarus” Johnson and the state of his Radical Marxist blog: LGF.

Icarus falling to the sea


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Cap and Trade is an Economic Disaster

by Phantom Ace ( 43 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Liberal Fascism at June 25th, 2009 - 8:42 pm

Tomorrow or this weekend the House will vote on Cap and Trade. This is a disastrous hidden tax that will hit consumers during a bad economy and it will make it worse. The Wall Street Journal dissects this scam and exposes it.

The Cap and Tax Fiction

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has put cap-and-trade legislation on a forced march through the House, and the bill may get a full vote as early as Friday. It looks as if the Democrats will have to destroy the discipline of economics to get it done.

Despite House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman’s many payoffs to Members, rural and Blue Dog Democrats remain wary of voting for a bill that will impose crushing costs on their home-district businesses and consumers. The leadership’s solution to this problem is to simply claim the bill defies the laws of economics.

Their gambit got a boost this week, when the Congressional Budget Office did an analysis of what has come to be known as the Waxman-Markey bill. According to the CBO, the climate legislation would cost the average household only $175 a year by 2020. Edward Markey, Mr. Waxman’s co-author, instantly set to crowing that the cost of upending the entire energy economy would be no more than a postage stamp a day for the average household. Amazing. A closer look at the CBO analysis finds that it contains so many caveats as to render it useless.

This and the so called health care reform will be 2 nails in our economy’s coffin.

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National Sales Tax is coming

by Phantom Ace ( 24 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Economy at May 27th, 2009 - 1:10 pm

More taxes are on the way. The new idea floating around is a Value Added Tax (VAT) to pay for health care.

Once Considered Unthinkable, U.S. Sales Tax Gets Fresh Look

With budget deficits soaring and President Obama pushing a trillion-dollar-plus expansion of health coverage, some Washington policymakers are taking a fresh look at a money-making idea long considered politically taboo: a national sales tax.

Common around the world, including in Europe, such a tax — called a value-added tax, or VAT — has not been seriously considered in the United States. But advocates say few other options can generate the kind of money the nation will need to avert fiscal calamity.

At a White House conference earlier this year on the government’s budget problems, a roomful of tax experts pleaded with Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner to consider a VAT. A recent flurry of books and papers on the subject is attracting genuine, if furtive, interest in Congress. And last month, after wrestling with the White House over the massive deficits projected under Obama’s policies, the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee declared that a VAT should be part of the debate.

“There is a growing awareness of the need for fundamental tax reform,” Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) said in an interview. “I think a VAT and a high-end income tax have got to be on the table.”

This is a regressive tax and would hurt Middle and Working Class families. This combined with Cap and Trade would continue the deterioration of America’s standard of living. Outsourced jobs, Stagnant wages combined with a VAT plus with Cap and Trade on top would be a nightmare for the average American. It is sad to see a nation commit economic suicide. Globalization and Marxism have both failed, why continue down one or both of these paths.

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The Cap and Trade scam

by Phantom Ace ( 20 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Economy, Liberal Fascism, Political Correctness at May 15th, 2009 - 7:57 am

The proposed Cap and Trade Bill is really just a scam. It is pork bill where the US Government will give out energy credits to companies for carbon. If they need to exceed the credits, they trade with another company. This really sounds like a scam that will give the government power. Speculators will get rich and the average American will pay higher energy rates. In other words, this is a scam.

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Global warming bill becomes another Washington porkfest

Rather than stopping the rise of the oceans, President Barack Obama’s push for greenhouse gas regulations is turning into another all-you-can-eat porkfest. As Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., prepares to introduce a climate bill in the House Energy and Commerce Committee he chairs, big businesses and their well-connected lobbyists are lining up with the hope of getting rich off these regulations.
An early winner looks to be the power companies, represented in Washington by the Edison Electric Institute. U.S. automakers, soon to be controlled in part by the labor unions who so generously fund the Democratic Party, are also among a handful of likely beneficiaries of this legislation.
Waxman’s bill, set to be drafted in committee next week, is centered on a cap-and-trade mechanism for curbing greenhouse gas emissions. Under cap-and-trade, the government requires many GHG emitters, such as power plants and factories, to “pay for” their emissions with special credits, with government controlling the supply.
This will do nothing to make America self sufficient in energy or help the environment. If Obama and Congress were serious, instead of bailouts and the pork stimulus bill, how about a serious program for new energy sources? How about building nuclear power plants, creating cheap hydrogen cells and the infrastructure to support this. This would create jobs and help our national security. When big government and big businesses work together we all lose.

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