Senate Action Alert: Highway Bill/Energy Subsidies
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | March 13th at 10:45 AM |
Update: All 4 amendments were defeated, meaning we won 2 and lost 2. DeMint’s devolution amendment failed 30-67 with 14 Republicans (including McConnell) voting no; Stabenow’s green energy pork amendment failed 49-49; DeMint’s repeal of all energy subsidies failed 26-72; the Menendez-Burr handouts for natural gas cars failed 51-47. 6 Republicans supported the subsidies, including Tom Coburn! This might seem like a stalemate, but the | Read More »
Senate Alert: Kill Energy Subsidies
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | March 8th at 12:00 PM |
Update: The Senate postponed the three energy subsidy amendments until next week. Instead, they voted on amendments to drill in the outer continental shelf, expedite the keystone pipeline, and eliminate duplicative programs. Needless to say, Democrats killed all three of those amendments. We’ll fight on next week. We’ve been gunning hard for the Pompeo/DeMint bill, which would end all subsidies and special tax preferences for | Read More »
Lots of Taxpayer Green Going to Greens
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | March 7th at 02:48 PM |
Democrats have a penchant to misconstrue the parlance related to tax credits and subsidies. They refer to subsidies as tax cuts and tax cuts as subsidies. They would have you believe that oil companies are completely on the dole, while solar and wind companies are heavily taxed entities in desperate need of some “tax breaks” and loans in order to alleviate the burden of producing | Read More »
The Chevy Volt Gets Unplugged
By: Brad Jackson (Diary) | March 5th at 10:00 AM |
Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the halt of Chevy Volt production, campaign proposals to encourage the manufacturing industry and why our corporate tax rate should be close to zero. We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen Clouse and Associates. If you’d | Read More »
The Non-Producers
By: Steve Maley (Diary) | January 14th at 11:15 AM |
Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom were pikers compared to the Government’s “Green Energy” schemes. Bialystock and Bloom plotted to make millions with a guaranteed Broadway flop. Against all odds, Springtime for Hitler became a runaway hit, and The Producers went to jail. But at least Mssrs. Bialystock and Bloom produced something of value – a hit musical. Our Green Initiative produces flop after flop, but | Read More »
End All Green Corporate Handouts in ‘Tax Extenders’ Bill
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | November 29th at 11:15 AM |
It’s that time of year again. The clock is ticking toward December 31, and green energy special interests are discreetly lobbying for the extension of their choice handouts, credits, and grants. We must remain vigilant against these powerful interests. At the end of every calendar year, Congress passes a ‘tax extenders’ bill to temporarily reauthorize specific tax breaks that have not been permanently written into | Read More »
Windmills are not healthy for bats, eagles and other flying things.
By: Steve Maley (Diary) | October 19th at 05:30 PM |
The giant Bird Cuisinarts are at it again. Only this time they’re killing bats. Well, a bat, but an endangered bat. Windmills stopped at night after bat death Thirty-five windmills at a western Pennsylvania wind farm have been silenced at night since a bat that belongs to an endangered species was found dead under one of the turbines. The Tribune-Democrat of Johnstown is reporting the | Read More »
$500,000 of Green for Green Jobs, Red for the Rest of Us
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | August 23rd at 02:02 PM |
It certainly pays to go green. Well, at least until the greenbacks stop flowing – and bankruptcy kicks in. Last year, the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Chris Horner estimated that the $30 billion green handout in the stimulus bill cost taxpayers roughly $475,000 per job created. According to the Wall Street Journal, that’s quadruple the cost of creating a job in a nonsubsidized private firm. It | Read More »
It’s Time for a Balanced Approach to Deficits and Green Energy
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | August 8th at 10:58 AM |
The Democrats think the American people are stupid. Throughout the debt ceiling imbroglio, Obama and every single elected Democrat have regurgitated their talking points about a balanced solution to the debt crisis. They have insulted the intelligence of every voter by intimating that the budget can be balanced by eliminating a few tax credits. No, they don’t want to talk about the tens of trillions | Read More »
The Democrats’ Plan to Tax 62% of Your Money
By: Brad Jackson (Diary) | May 31st at 10:22 AM |
Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets , Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the end of nuclear energy in Germany, the Democrats’ plan for a 62% tax bracket and the effects those taxes will have on the economy. We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen Clouse and Associates | Read More »
Let’s Nail Democrats on Their Duplicity with Energy Subsidies
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | May 18th at 09:26 AM |
“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”~ President Ronald Reagan Democrats (and the Maine Republicans ladies) are agog to demonize oil companies and punish them with punitive tax increases. Their effort was defeat yesterday 52-48, but they plan to continue | Read More »
Obama Speech Breakdown
By: Mark Impomeni (Diary) | June 16th at 01:00 PM |
President Obama’s much hyped Oval Office address on the Gulf oil disaster is being roundly criticized from the left and the right as lacking in substance and leadership on the spill but full of presidential inaction on the cleanup. An analysis of the number of words the president devoted to the four general topics of the speech shows that the critics are right. The problem | Read More »
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