The Liberty Tree Lantern

This constant insult to our intelligence and our family finances, due to legislators not cutting the State budget like our families have to do continuously, is coming to an end. I feel that it is awful for the Wisconsin Government to put your company in the middle between us and them in the attempt to mask their tax increases on us.

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If we the people would make the ‘decison’ to force the Obama Administration to release Oil and Gas drilling leases, WHERE THE OIL and GAS IS, the price of energy would plummet because there are many HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of barrels of crude oil and untold volumes of natural gas in the Western Federal Lands and Offshore. The US Government IS selling leases all over America and even offshore in areas that they are confidently sure there is no Oil or Gas.

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Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Barack Obama both lied about the Federal Government would receive HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of more in taxes from ALL Americans including average working Americans at all pay levels. These Cap and Trade Taxes would amount to a 15% increase in taxes for ALL Americans.

The Treasury Department provided a report providing the information on the MASSIVE TAX INCREASE, for Cap and Trade, on March 9th 2009 to Congress and President Obama. Regardless of receipt of the report they both LIED directly to the American public about the cost of this proposal in Congress. Waxman stated that it would only cost about 40 cents per day. Obama stated that it would only cost “about the same as a postage stamp per day”.

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God created all sorts of energy resources, only a few of which have been developed and utilized to drive our economy. Energy is the life blood of freedom and it is what allows our economy to produce individual wealth for all Americans. And, this is why energy, in all forms, is so very important to the average working American. Cheap inexpensive oil is what results in the costs of everything to go down to reasonable affordable levels for us all. When energy is inexpensive it is also an incentive for Americans to start new small businesses, because then it is easier to make a good profit, and therefore lower energy costs results in hundreds of thousands of new jobs and allows for significant increases in money available for wages on the shop floor or out in the field.

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This is “Priceless”:

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Almost half of the Americans who responded to a new poll say they have concerns about the impact of carbon dioxide on the climate, but two out of three say they have no interest whatsoever in opening their wallets to pay for any mitigation.

Asked whether they “believe that man-produced carbon dioxide and other so-called greenhouse gases will induce catastrophic climate change” if unaddressed, 49.6 percent of the respondents said yes. Twenty-seven percent said no, and 23.4 percent were uncertain. The concern from Democrats and Republicans was reversed with Democrats saying 10-1 yes and Republicans saying 2-1 no.

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The U.S. House of Representatives may vote this Friday on the “American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009” (the Waxman-Markey bill). We need the many voices of the Partnership for America’s Energy Security to write and call your legislators, urging them to oppose this harmful and misguided legislation.

Addressing climate change is an important issue, and the U.S. oil and natural gas industry has made substantial commitments to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The industry supports balanced legislation to reduce greenhouse gases and replace the patchwork of state and federal regulatory programs, but the Waxman-Markey bill is not the answer. This hastily drafted legislation would:

Significantly increase consumer and business costs for gasoline and other fuels;

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Late last month, President Obama sent an outline of his 2010 budget to Congress, and it contained a dire threat to our nation’s economy and energy security. The Administration is proposing at least $400 billion in new taxes and fees on the oil and natural gas industry, which would result in:

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Sebelius, the Health and Human Services Director appointee, is a big advocate of Socialist universal healthcare. A few weeks ago the U.S. Congress passed a new SCHIP bill. The bill, which few people knew, took away the existing requirement to make sure that a State check to make sure that a person is legally present in the United Statesbefore agreeing to use taxpayer money to pay for these services. Enter Kathleen Sebelius, who favors giving away in State tuition to Illegal Aliens and favors drivers licenses to Illegal Aliens. She is the LAST person we want interpreting the this new law and issuing regulations, because she will certainly ensure that States can’t check for legal status anymore.

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The following report demonstrates the utter contempt our enemies in the U.S. Congress House of Representatives has for us as they clearly insult our intelligence.

WASHINGTON — Offshore oil drilling, which has dominated energy debates in the presidential campaign, is now coming to the Senate.The House late Tuesday approved on a 236-189 vote legislation that would open waters 50 miles off the Pacific and Atlantic coasts to oil and natural gas development — if the adjacent states agree to go along.

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