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JR Hoeft

Conservative to the core; liberal with his opinion! J.R. has been involved in politics for over a decade and has worked on several campaigns in Hampton Roads. He has served on the Executive Committee of the Republican Party of Chesapeake and the Central Committee of the Republican Party of Virginia. He is also the director of “Blogs United” in Virginia. E-mail J.R.. Follow J.R. on Twitter.

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2 Responses to "Waxman-Markey to cost Virginians thousands of jobs; Deeds placates progressives with extreme view"

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   tx2vadem August 14, 2009 10:10 am

   Energy costs are going to go up regardless once the global economy picks up pace again. I don’t know if you recall, but in 2007 every commodity including coal reached all time highs. Crude oil flirted with its inflation adjusted peak of the 1980s.

   And before we start down the let’s drill off shore path, I’m with you on that. But that is a drop in the ocean of America’s overall petroleum demand.

   The problem of finite fossil fuels still exists irrespective of ACES. So, we need to do something to address it. Are you suggesting we scrap all of ACES or just the Cap & Trade provisions? And would you favor an alternative like a carbon tax similar to what Rep. Inglis (R-SC) proposed?

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   Britt Howard August 14, 2009 13:29 pm

   I woud hope that one would not favor a tax on an element on the periodic table. As a carbon based life form, I find the very idea, ridiculous. As I breathe out carbon dioxide and a TREE breathes it in, I have to wonder where will the madness end? Why is that the current administration is so set on destroying the free-market and wither our economy?

   All that money spent on the stimulus package. All that money they spent buying banks with TARP. All that money buying Government Motors and Chrysler. All the money(clunker bailout) to prop up 2/3′s of the the American auto industry that the government already had to bail out. All that money they want to spend on socialized healthcare, and this socialized topic, redistributing wealth by stealing from companies that were still making it under the current system that they were told was the structure to go by. A Cap & Tax scheme that will cripple industry and retard growth.

   I suppose CAP & Tax will be a revenue stream to reward dependence on Parental government. Couched in a moral “environmental correctness”. They set the precedent of a moral correctness by insisting we pay Cap & Taxes to the Church of Gaia. So much for the separation of church and state. Like the “religious right” and the “moral correctness” they wish to force on those on the “Left”, that “Religious Left” now seeks to force their religion down the throats of everyone and confiscate wealth in the name of the planet. The “Religious Left” like the “Religious Right” has some evidence that they may be correct in their beliefs. However, as the “Left” likes to point fingers at Christians and shout that their Bible is not solid proof, there are very many scientists that totally discount the idea that we are experiencing a man made warming. Many even say we’ve cooled more than what was experienced in the past, and this is all cyclical.

   In the end, these people that intend to tax us based on a religion all their own, have no more proof of their beliefs than the other side they so resent for telling them how to live THEIR lives. Hypocrites! When it comes down to it, the “Religious Left” only has one thing to back them up solidly. It is the same thing that backs most religions. They are left with faith. The difference is, there is a wall of separation that protects us from the Taliban. There is a wall that protects Baptist children from being forced to pray to Mother Mary in public school rather than directly to God if Catholics entering from the sothern border become a majority. There is a wall of separation that prevents one religion forcing behavior on another. There is a wall that keeps one religious belief from taxing others based on their FAITH!

   Tell me. Where is the wall between church and state that prevents the Church of Gaia with its “End Times” story of Earth’s destruction, that has no more evidence than FAITH from telling me to use paper, then plastic, then cloth, then who knows what bag? Next maybe paper again since it is a renewable resource? Then plastic again because we love trees again?What wall will allow me freedom to drive my car without it being insisted that I feel a “Gaia guilt” as the “Religious Left” comes to “witness” to me and confiscate my wealth and possibly my job in the name of the church? Instead of burning me at the stake, will they find a more “Earth Friendly” way of recycling my newly murdered body? Will there be a “Spanish Inquistion” a “Salem witch trials”? Wil companies and their owners be falsely accused of serving the capitalistic devil. Blasphemy against the planet? Will my lifestyle choices of being a capitalist, free market, rugged individualist, that seeks to help others by free will instead of government direction, be used to label me as an abomination to Gaia?

   Oh, I am all to sure that money changer/Carbon Tax Credit high priest Al Gore would love to steal our earned wealth and redistribute it to the “holy” new elite. Surely, he approves of teaching global warming and the holiness of carbon tax credits in public schools! He will have his own “Hail Mary’s” and bribes to his church. We can buy our way to heaven. We will have “indulgences” and call them carbon tax credits.

   “It is a fundamental principle of human nature that we learn to hate those that we injure” – Caius Tacitus

   As the Spanish Inquistion, the Salem Witch trials, the Nazis with the Jews, the Taliban etc., this new religion of environmentalism will be used to condemn political opponents for not just alleged crimes against their faith, but also political expedience. They will rationalize this theft and pain caused, by noting it was evil Earth hating capitalist pigs, so thats ok. Kinda like my ex-girlfriend’s Muslim freinds that justified shoplifting because the store owner was an infidel, and that is ok with their god.

   When Al Gore gets frozen in snow at yet another Global Warming sermon, an excuse will be found and the chill we be blamed on man made climate fluctuations and the diabolical Republicans. They will find excuses to prop up their faith.

   Tell me. Who will protect me from it?

   Ask me. Why do I insist on a Constitutional Republic where “Mob Rule” and “might makes right” can’t be “Tryanny of the majority” tools to attack a minority. Figure out why, no, I don’t want to pay carbon taxes based on a system of conjecture. Where do YOU draw the line. Where do YOU allow yourself to be judged, stolen from, and disposed of based on somebody else’s alleged belief? “Green” or not.