Crashing The Economy

The Demorats, and Representative John Dingell (D), want to completely crash the American economy.

Dingell, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee creating new climate legislation, says:

I'm trying to have everybody understand that this is going to cost and that it's going to have a measure of pain that you're not going to like."

This is what 81-year-old Demorat Dingell (15th Congressional District in Michigan) wants:

—A 50-cent-a-gallon tax on gasoline and jet fuel, phased in over five years, on top of existing taxes.
—A tax on carbon, at $50 a ton, released from burning coal, petroleum or natural gas.
—Phaseout of the interest tax deduction on home mortgages for homes over 3,000 square feet. Owners would keep most of the deduction for homes at the lower end of the scale, but it would be eliminated entirely for homes of 4,200 feet or more.

And you'll love this quote:

In the interview (on C-SPAN's ‘Newsmakers’ airing Sunday), Dingell acknowledged that voters may not be willing to bear the cost of limiting greenhouse gas emissions, and that he would propose the new tax “just to sort of see how people really feel about this.”

“I sincerely doubt that the American people are willing to pay what this is really going to cost them,” Dingell said in the interview.

So let me see: this guy is going to "float" a crippling tax just to "see" what people think about paying an additional 50-cents per gallon on top of what they'll pay in the future?? Not to mention, the Demorats have stated they'll allow the current tax cuts to simply expire in 2010. And they want you to pay more taxes as well, even absent this fuel tax.

You cannot tell me that Fornicalia has the Moonbat Market cornered; I think at this point one would have to include Michigan (not to mention its burgeoning Muzzie populace and its government's and businesses' capitulation to Islamic "conveniences" -- foot basins at the airport, taxi drivers refusing fares, etc.).

If you think that I don't believe the threshold of this is, in fact, the tanking of our economy, then you're entirely wrong.

BZ