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‘Put These Words Upon His Tomb: Taxes Drove Me to My Doom’

By Stahlecker

To The Editor:
When I read Rep. Frank A. LoBiondo’s explanation for his vote on the Cap and Trade energy bill that was passed by Congress in June, I was appalled by the ease with which he ignored the additional burden of higher prices that the legislation will place on his constituents.
His pathetic defense of the unconscionable vote even included “planning for additional nuclear reactors.” Nuclear reactors? Please! With NIMBY, the Not in My Back Yard rallying cry of Greenpeace and tree hugging environmentalists, it will never happen. Offshore drilling? Also off the table.
During the time the bill was in committee, the Republicans offered three amendments under which the program could be suspended: first, if gas hit $5 a gallon; second, if electricity prices rose 10 percent over 2009; third, if unemployment rates hit 15 percent. Democrats defeated all of them. So much for their idea of bipartisanship.
Many people know nothing about the bill. Members of Congress may know little more than the public because a 300-page amendment was added to the bill by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi just hours before the vote. Only eight Republicans including LoBiondo (has he really mastered speed-reading?) joined the Democrats in passing the bill.
The legislation, which is linked to the unproven assumption that carbon emissions alone are causing global warming, mandates the amount of carbon that manufacturing companies can emit. These limits, called “caps,” ratchet up in the later years to levels that are, in all likelihood, unsustainable. As these limits are reached, companies will then have to buy permits or “trades,” the cost of which will be passed on to consumers.
The whole point of the bill is to hike the price of electricity, natural gas and gasoline so high that Americans will use less. Those higher prices will show up not just in utility bills and at the pump but in everything from food to cars. The Heritage Foundation’s analysis is that the annual cost to a family of four will be approximately $1,870 at the start of the program and rise to $6,800 in the later years.
After 16-years in Washington, LoBiondo has sacrificed his principles by supporting an administration that wastes money on useless stimulus programs, bails out incompetent corporations, amasses $3 trillion deficits and demands even more of our hard-earned money in taxes.
Remember the old tax poem?
Tax his land; tax his bed; tax the table at which he’s fed.
Tax his tractor; tax his mule; teach him taxes are the rule.
Tax his work; tax his pay; he works for peanuts anyway.
Tax his cow; tax his goat; tax his pants; tax his coat.
Tax his ties; tax his shirt; tax his work; tax his dirt.
Tax his tobacco; tax his drink; tax him if he tries to think.
Tax his liquor; tax his beers; if he cries, tax his tears.
Tax all he has; then let him know that you won’t be done till he has no dough.
When he hollers, tax him more; tax him till he’s good and sore.
Then tax his coffin; tax his grave; tax the sod in which he’s laid.
When he’s gone do not relax; it’s time to apply the Inheritance Tax.
Put these words upon his tomb:
Taxes Drove Me to My Doom.
It’s time we impose term limits on politicians who operate under that idea. Let’s start with LoBiondo by turning him out of office in the 2010 election.
GERALD F. STAHLECKER
Seaville

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