[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15422]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     YET ANOTHER TAX ON THE PEOPLE

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Madam Speaker, with the banner cry, ``they never 
found a tax they didn't like,'' the taxacrats want to tax energy 
consumption.
  Here's the plan: Tax American energy and use the tax to pay for the 
national health care program. In fact, Duke Energy has already asked 
for a 13.5 percent rate increase on its customers to pay for this new 
oppressive tax. You see, taxes on American energy companies will be 
passed on to the rest of us. And so it begins.
  Families and businesses are already struggling during these new times 
of change. The stimulus bill has only made things worse. So the 
government is going to automatically raise the cost of everything that 
comes from energy, which is almost everything. And the consumer pays, 
while our small manufacturing companies go out of business because of 
these new energy taxes. And now we learn the new energy tax plan, which 
was supposed to save planet Earth, will have little or no effect on the 
climate. Bummer.
  So why punish American energy companies that pass the pain on to 
citizens? Here's the reason: The government economic philosophy of 2009 
is: if something moves, regulate it; if it keeps moving, tax it; and if 
it stops moving, nationalize it.
  And that's just the way it is.

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