Category: National Policy Analysis
Senate Democrats Seek to Change Cap-and-Trade Debate from Energy to Jobs, by Caroline May
Senate Democrats are considering yet another global warming bill, optimistic that – despite the current economic malaise – a better sales pitch will increase support for their restrictive energy proposals. The legislation's sponsors, Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Barbara Boxer ...
Big Business and Left-Wing Activists Join Hands to Promote Cap-and-Trade, by Tom Borelli, Ph.D.
Big business continues to undermine our liberties. On the heels of the major drug companies working a deal with President Obama on health care reform, other corporations are partnering with environmental, labor and left-wing special interest groups in a last-ditch effort ...
Ideology, Not Reason, Drives Obama Energy Policy, by Tom Borelli, Ph.D.
Rumors asserting that President Obama's interest in pursuing cap-and-trade legislation has dwindled are vastly overstated. In reality, sketchy plans and letting Congress take the lead is classic Obama. Recall that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) wrote the stimulus bill and ...
Cap and Trade Bill Contains a New “Cash for Clunkers” Program Covering Consumer Products
The Wall Street Journal has sarcastically suggested that "Cash for Clunkers" be extended to "subsidize the purchase of kitchen appliances... and new fishing boats," arguing that such items "are hardly less deserving than cars."1 Be careful what you wish for. ...
No Free Lunch: The True Cost of ObamaCare, by Matt Patterson
Far from providing "affordable" care for everyone, as President Obama has promised,1 the main health care proposals working their way through Congress would in fact come at a painful price - higher insurance premiums, more and higher taxes, fewer jobs, ...
Cooling the Hysteria: Time to Ask the “Nasty Questions,” by Dana Joel Gattuso
"Climate change is a reality; the debate is over," Tom Strickland, Assistant Secretary of Interior, recently told reporters before releasing a plan intended to mitigate warming's effect on natural resources.1 Well the fat lady's not singing yet. Debate on the ...
Ezekiel Emanuel Must Go
I'll never forget the morning our son wouldn't wake up. It was three days after Thanksgiving and getting late. I hadn't heard a peep from my eldest son, Jonathan, so I tried to roust him out of bed. But he ...
National Health Care Kills, And Insults While It Does It, by Matt Patterson
In 1997, Brian Booy of Bristol, U.K. was diagnosed with angina, a chest pain caused by coronary heart disease,1 and told he needed triple bypass surgery.2 Unfortunately for Mr. Booy and his family, he made the grave mistake of getting ...
Big Ag’s Free Ride Should Be Eliminated from Cap-and-Trade Bill
Farm belt congressmen who voted for the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill committed – to borrow from the New York Times’ Paul Krugman – a form of treason. It was treason against the agricultural communities they represent. Sure, they got a few ...
The Best Health Reform May Be to Kill Cap-and-Trade
If you worry about what Congress could do in its health care legislation, you should be terrified by the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill, which could cost millions of Americans their health insurance. Nearly 15 million Americans are now looking for work, ...
