What If?

I get a weekly newsletter from Congress.org. This week there was a little video in it explaining the proposed "Cap and Trade" system to curb the emission of greenhouse gases. It's a very short video that will give you the general idea of how the plan might work.

The interesting thing about the presentation was that about half way through, when the presenter was trying to show how effective the plan might be, he used a term that seems to be the watch word of most political types. He said, "If it works".

If you would like to hear the presentation you can watch the presentation here. I doubt that seeing it will make you want to run right out and join either of the factions of our electorate that is either for or against what I consider to be total insanity. But there is something that you should consider.

This monstrosity of a TAX mechanism... (You can draw your own conclusions), I believe, will become the 'back breaker' for the American Consumer if it is pushed through by the nutcases that are in charge of our executive and legislative branches of government currently. Why? The answer is pretty simple. Let's do some simple as it gets, Redneck math.

First, there is a finite amount of money that is earned by the WORKING people in this country every week. They take the money, and spend it for goods and services that are necessary to exist in our society. If there is a little left over they either save it or add it to the economy with a discretionary purchase. But for the most part, all the money gets spent. GET IT? The money is earned and then it is spent. That's what makes the American economy go!

Now, fast forward a few years into the "Cap and Trade" debacle. Do you think the companies that have to pay the fines or spend profits on credits they need to stay under the "Cap" are going to go broke in the process? If not, then how will they survive? Very simple. They will raise the price of their goods or services to make ends meet, and guess who gets to pay the bill? The American Consumer.

With the pressure on most of our industy to pay the "Tax", most all of the goods and services will go up. Some of the worst "polluters" are oil companies. Do you think they are going to NOT pass the added cost of the "Tax" on to the driving public? Sure they will.

They pay the "Tax", and the American Consumer gets the "Bill". But what happens to the American Consumer? Can he simply raise his labor rates because all his costs of living went up? No, certainly not. In fact, with the burdens of the extra taxes on businesses all across the country, the American Consumer will probably be lucky to just keep the job he has at the current wage that he is earning. So what will happen? Well, that's when Mr. and Mrs. America will have to start making choices about what or if they will buy anything other than the necessities of life. And if there isn't enough to get those necessities, who knows what will happen? Crime will probably increase. Welfare rolls will swell. There will be fewer workers paying the taxes that feed the entitlements that will be demanded.

Here's my opinion. Ultimately the opression that is coming with the "Cap and Trade", "Health Care Reform", and God only knows what else the idiots in Washington D. C. will come up with, will cause precipitate a political upheavel that will eventually cause the end of this wonderful experiment we now know as America.

Sad isn't it?