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Politics : The Citizens Manifesto
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To: Road Walker who wrote (345)8/3/2005 12:18:14 PM
From: TimF   of 492
 
The current "energy" bill is the poster child for our dysfunctional government. It does little or nothing to address the problem and it costs the taxpayer $Billions which mostly go to the bottom lines of special interest companies.

You will get little or now argument from me about that. I am not a supporter of that bill.

it would have actually had a very positive effect

It may have some effects that are positive. I don't consider the overall impact to be positive

and it would have been deficit neutral.

Only because it includes new taxes. That isn't a selling point for me.

The question isn't always "if" there should be regulation and tax manipulation, the question sometimes is "what" manipulation would work and do the least damage.

When discussing each energy bill (real worlds one's or yours), I would normally consider the least intervention to be the least damage. I don't think that supporting or even passing a bill like the one you support would make a bill like Bush's less likely. The only way to avoid such pork ladden special interest bills is to get enough people to be against the principle of government sticking its nose in to everything. We need to get away from the notion of "If it moves, tax it. If it still moves, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”

Tim
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