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To: Ilaine who wrote (102830)5/17/2001 12:32:00 AM
From: Don Lloyd  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 436258
 
CB -

In the US, several bills are pending to give tax breaks to consumers who install alternative energy sources in their personal residences:
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For US citizens, if you want to see this happen, write your congressperson. There still is a holdover credit from the Carter era for businesses.


This is just another upper middle class welfare, wealth transfer, program. In the attempt to buy the votes of high tax rate homeowners at the expense of everyone else, it distorts the economy and creates the certainty of fraud and abuse as all kinds of producers of junk will make campaign contributions to ensure that the product qualifying laws are written in such a way to include their junk.

Regards, Don