The Wayfarer Philosophy

Yesterday morning, Obama continues his campaign for taxing all of us through Cap and Trade and controlling all of our healthcare. I’ve been discussing these issues for a while now, but when I hear him just toss out meaningless numbers and makes false statements to make the plan he’s pimping sound better than what it really is bothers me. Yesterday he stated that the Cap and Trade Tax on Carbon emissions everywhere will only cost the American taxpayer $175.00 a year. The lowest non-partisan estimates are actually at $1800.00, and the higher range is about $3000.00. Either way, these are all estimates. But you can see how high this can grow based on a simple understanding of truly how much this tax will affect everything.

What Gets Taxed in Cap and Trade

Cap and Trade seeks to cap Carbon Dioxide emissions. This is done under the misnomer that Carbon Dioxide is a pollutant. Carbon Dioxide is what we breathe out and what plants breathe in. In trying to limit the Carbon Dioxide that is produces, the government intends to tax any business or individual that emits Carbon Dioxide above certain levels. The levels that are going to be taxed are going to gradually be phased in to the point that by 2035, Carbon Dioxide caps will cap emissions to be 80% lower than they were in 2005. If that sounds drastic, that’s because it is. They want to limit Carbon Dioxide emissions down to where they were in 1867, just after the Civil War, when the population of the country was a fraction of what it is today and before the large growth of industry and technology that took place in the 20th century.

So, as businesses and individuals get taxed for emitting Carbon Dioxide, the Democrats are trying to say it is a free-market solution in that businesses can purchase “Carbon Credits.” Basically, companies have to buy allowances to emit Carbon Dioxide, creating a whole new commodity of allotments. Either way, this is a tax in that everything that uses energy will be having to pay a lot more for it. This tax is also a compounding tax in that spending money on government fines or Carbon Credits will pile up multiple times throughout the production process of anything.

How the Tax Compounds

Anything that gets produced requires energy. Farmer’s tractors, warehouses that use electricity (all of them do by the way), and any product that gets shipped on a plane, train, or automobile (all of them do except for fresh Amish products bought in the country). So, if electricity providers, who are going to get slammed real hard with having to pay government fines or buy Carbon Credits are obviously going to have to increase their rates. This means that warehouses will pay more for electric, companies that use office buildings will have to pay more for electricity. Individuals living int heir homes will have to pay more for their electricity. So, all these products that are grown or manufactured using energy (and they all do) will cost more. It will cost more to produce, ship, and then sell in the market since everyone’s energy costs go up. Since the individual is paying more for electric at home, and paying more for everything they buy, don’t you think that this tax is going to compound just a bit?

Here is Obama admitting that his Cap and Trade policy is going to skyrocket energy prices, but then how does he get away with lying that it will only cost us about $175.00 per year per household? He says two different things at two different times, and we can’t call him a liar?

Another Lie

Obama also said in the same interview that the government was going to rebate the costs that will be paid for the fines and purchasing of Carbon Credits. Now, anyone who believes this really needs a Cat scan to see if they have a brain. IF the government is going to rebate this tax to those who are going to have to pay it, then why have the tax in the first place? OF COURSE THERE WON’T BE A REBATE. The government’s recent spending festival that is still going on is going to be partially paid for by EVERY ONE OF US paying this Cap and Trade Tax. As I pointed out before this tax cut on 95$ of the American people is a bunch of B.S. This tax is going to everyone and it’s going to hit hard so that Al Gore can make money on his investments and the Liberal Democrats int he government can run the enrgy industry and basically every industry that needs power of some sort.

This word came to my mind the other night along with a concept of what it would mean. Knowing that it has a nice ring to it, I decided to look online, and sure enough, people are already using it in regard to their music or in regard to categorizing rural Americans as paramilitary gun-toting anti-Obama lunatics. I would like to take this opportunity to suggest a useful definition to the word. I also want to note that being anti-Obama policy is certainly not the position of a lunatic. Defending his insane policies without debating the policies themselves just based on being against his policies means that you are racist is actually the position of a lunatic.

Barackabilly – (Ba – rawk – uh – bil – ee) – An individual whose love for Barack Obama as as a stylish celebrity leads the individual to think that Barack Obama could do no wrong. A Barackabilly does not examine the policies or details of said policies that are promoted by Barack Obama, but rather, are so emotionally wrapped up in his personality that they must accuse anyone who questions the policies of Barack Obama of being a racist. The Barackabilly despises thought, debate, discussion, and personal thought. The Barackabilly insists that Barack Obama is not capable of erring in thought or policy and that anyone who chooses to engage in debate of his policies must indeed be insulted through whatever terms will do the job, such as labeling the thinking person a racist, redneck, millionaire, or Flat-Earther.

Example

Janine Garofolo is the poster-child of a Barackabilly. In this interview with fellow Barackabilly, Keith Oberman, she claims that anyone who was protesting the high taxes and high spending that our government has been engaging in must by a white, redneck racist. The fact that so many protestors were not white does not seem to matter. the fact that the people were protesting an issue and government policy instead of just Barack Obama as an individual, also does not matter. Any disagreement with Barack Obama must be labeled racism using some sort of quasi-intellectual discussion on the limbic system. The fact that Ms. Garofolo’s discussion of the limbic system has no basis in scientific fact and really doesn’t have anything to do with tax policy does not matter. The Barackabilly must resist any discussion of fact, policy, or relevant subject matter. The Barackabilly seeks to discuss only their perceived racism, although unrelated, and whatever junk science enters their mind as a possible explanation for why other people do not worship Barack Obama like they do.