As for the Lands issue, the States merely need to assert their powers within their borders. There is no general confiscatory Power of Congress except for a Capitol. Otherwise within the paradigm at the extreme is confiscating in entirety all Lands of the States; if you reject that then you reject what they have done currently.

summary: the States belong to the States.

1. Energy. Oil, Gas and Coal. When prices skyrocket, gubmint will issue energy coupons like food stamps to redistribute wealth.

2. Second Amendment, via UN Treaty and EPA regs on ammunition. Back door gun control.

3. First Amendment.

~Free speech via FCC shutting down talk radio and assaults on FNC.

~ Gubmint control over Internet. Another FCC initiative, bolstered by UN treaty.

~ Assault on religion. Starting with ObamaCare.

Just for openers.

(Never mind the Tenth Amendment.)

Carbon Tax? That’s a tax on those filthy rich oil and power companies right? Do it.

Clinton Tax rates >$250K? That’s a tax on those filthy rich people right? Do it.

Frank and Dodd? That’s regulations on those filthy rich Wall Street types right? Do it.

Anything else?

White House: Obama not planning to propose a carbon tax, he’s planning to dictate a carbon tax.

Fixed.

(A quick word to the wise, by the way: A carbon tax does not mean greedy oil executives will be deprived of their ostensibly ill-begotten and immoral profits, or wherever it is proponents claim the money will come from; a carbon tax is a tax on your usage of electricity and gas, and your bills will get more expensive.)

Would the Obama administration recognize that nuclear power plants should be exempt from carbon taxes (carbon dioxide is an inevitable result of burning hydrocarbons in an oxygen atmosphere, however carbon is not a daughter product of nuclear fission)?

Or will they smite nuclear users out of some misguided sense of fairness and scientific ignorance?

2015- the communist will put the hammer down !!!!!!!!!!

Let him propose all he wants, he doesn’t control the House. We do.

Charlemagne on November 9, 2012 at 5:34 PM

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at that. Probably one, then the other, then the first one again.

Think about it. If you taxed a product at 100%, would the company just pass the tax onto the consumer? If they tried, no one would buy their product, and the company would go bankrupt.

jd3181 on November 9, 2012 at 5:18 PM

Yes, they would pass on the tax. They would do nothing else. It’s not a competition issue: the entire industry gets the same tax. If they passed a tax on basket-weaving, all the basket weavers would likely close because people would no longer buy their product. So that would be an industry eliminated by government meddling.

But in the case of carbon, what are people going to do? Not drive? They would cut back in response to the price, hurting the economy, but only in response to the price. We don’t care about the gas company’s taxes any more than they care about our wallets. Business is business. The economy, meanwhile, would suffer from decreased consumption and decreased transportation.

More to the point, all taxes are “passed on.” Where else is the business going to get the money to pay the tax? Are they going to borrow it from Obama’s stash? Taking less profit is never an option. It’s a business. The goal is always to make the most money.

Democrats live in a fantasy world where heroic Dem legislators pass taxes and, in response, monocle-clad Republican businessmen jump up and down on their top hats in frustration in another victory for the people. In the real world, Atlas shrugs and the consumer pays.

Obama is lazy.

Lazy people don’t do much but talk. That is why he is jetting off to Asia when he should be getting to work on important domestic economic issues facing this country. The harder we make him work the less likely he will actually do it.

The House GOP maybe should take this road…

Let him propose all he wants, he doesn’t control the House. We do.

Charlemagne on November 9, 2012 at 5:34 PM

Hasn’t really stopped him yet.

“The Administration has not proposed nor is planning to propose a carbon tax,” [a White House] official said

Of course not- Senator-Elect Tammy Baldwin is going to do that for them. Mark my words.

Washington Fancy on November 9, 2012 at 5:12 PM

Those fields, 30 years ago, were supposed to be profitable with oil trading at $30/barrel. With the Obama lock-up, they won’t be developed at $30/bbl, $150/bbl, or $1,500,000/bbl.

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”

You just never know when another crisis might rear its ugly head…

Give the people what they want!

HitNRun on November 9, 2012 at 4:59 PM

I hear you!

Just as a parent has to kick the little birds out of the nest, and let them experience the consequences of their actions, so must we stop shielding these idiots from running out into the street chasing their balls.

Interior proposal would block oil shale development on federal lands in West
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/267095-interior-proposes-shielding-federal-lands-in-west-from-drilling

The Interior Department on Friday issued a final plan to close 1.6 million acres of federal land in the West originally slated for oil shale development.

1) we can’t keep doing the same thing and expect different results.

2) let’s demonstrate how little tax revenue will be generated. Watch how the millionaires disappear into thin air.

3) Then Obama will come after the next layer of earners. Boehner (or whoever is Speaker by that time) will counter with “Why not tax wealth instead?” There’s pots of billionaires in the US – grab a chunk of theirs.

4) isn’t it better to get it over with, while we still remember what we’re fighting for (liberty and all of its sweetness)?

Fiscal cliff time is happening real soon, and Obama has supported pretty much every dime of spending that brought us here, whether as a senator or as prez. He will have to own this. His voters will be the first ones to suffer, rich and poor. Hollywood celebs et al. Then we can watch how they all proceed to scramble and hide their money from Obama – offshore.

I dunno, I need something to look forward to. Watching the Dems rip into America would give me perverse pleasure.