[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13557]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        SAVING PLANET EARTH TAX

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the new carbon energy tax is about to 
nail all Americans who use energy. It's about old-fashioned, central 
planning control that would make the now-defunct Soviet Union green 
with envy.
  In the name of saving Planet Earth, the taxacrats want to control 
every dollar spent on energy in America. They also want control over 
who can use it and how. So they came up with the mother of all 
mandates: The cap-and-trade national tax on energy consumption. This 
scheme will bankrupt manufacturing businesses and cost American 
families thousands of dollars a year in new taxes.
  If you use electricity or natural gas in your home, you've got 
another tax. If you drive your car, the gasoline tax will go up. It's 
all about government control over our lives.
  And the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the cap-and-
trade boondoggle will be a major tax increase or a massive expansion of 
government, or both. And they also told the Senate last week that it 
won't have any impact on the Earth's temperature. Now isn't that 
lovely.
  And that's just the way it is.

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