Tag "cap-and-trade"
Back to homepageCap & Trade will socialize your power bill
May 22, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi The mere mention of the words Cap and Trade in California and people just tune out because it sounds too complicated to understand. While it is complicated, it is nevertheless understandable. What we’re learning
Read MoreWill Cap and Trade cure California’s deficit?
May 18, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi California voters may soon ask themselves: “Why vote for an $8.5 billion sales and income tax increase in November 2012 if Cap and Trade is going to raise $50 billion to $100 billion for
Read MoreAB 32 Cap and trade hearings high on speculation, low on details
May 3, 2012 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO — A recent poll about the implementation of AB 32 shows that California voters and taxpayers aren’t real crazy about cap and trade or regulatory reporting regulations. Cap and trade programs mandate reduced
Read MoreUSC Poll: Voters want unneeded tax
April 13, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi An opinion poll might tell you if a majority of the public wants higher taxes. But it cannot tell you if higher taxes are needed. Nevertheless, the mainstream media only want to report what
Read MoreClimate Change Can Wait For Nov. Election
Katy Grimes: Taking a page from national political campaigns, California’s highly politically charged Air Resources Board made a surprise decision yesterday to postpone the first cap and trade auction from August to November — after the November election. At an
Read MoreCap and ‘Train’ Leaves the Station
JAN. 31, 2012 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Gov. Jerry Brown just proposed a new idea for financing California’s $100 billion high-speed rail project: Use the fees from the state’s Cap and Trade emission taxation program to fund it. This new hybrid
Read MoreBrown Pushes Cap & Trade Pension Grab
JAN. 11, 2012 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Call it pension “entrap and raid” — instead of environmental “cap and trade.” Gov. Jerry Brown is floating an idea to divert $1 billion from the auction of pollution credits under California’s Cap and
Read MorePolitical Chicanery Behind AB 32's Delay
JULY 5, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Looks like ending global warming wasn’t so important after all. In 2012, California was supposed to implement the Cap and Trade part of AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. Now that’s being delayed
Read MoreCap and Trade Shootout Looms
JULY 1, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Proposition 23 lives. On the ballot last November, it would have suspended AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, until state unemployment dropped to 5.5 percent for a year. Currently, state unemployment is
Read MoreTax 'Brown Out' from Cap-and-Trade?
MAY 13, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Will working class opposition to California’s cap-and-trade program lead to a tax “Brown Out”? The usual meaning of “brown out” means a lowering of power voltage for a period of time, as in “rolling
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