by Jason Reeves

Created on: June 22, 2009   Last Updated: June 25, 2009

For what? Who would pay for and actually feel the effects of another "tax"? Or better yet, who would benefit? All of the above are important questions that need to be addressed before an accurate and fair opinion can be reached concerning a carbon tax. The current White House Administration most definitely inherited a slowing economy; but over taxing, over regulating, and much larger government wanting even more control cannot be the best idea for improvement, especially for the hard working middle class.

Unintentionally so, I must answer the first of the above questions with a question. Why on earth does the United States government need to tax anything else? I mean how much more revenue do they need in order to fill their fat little belly's. Sure there are some who may think another tax may help encourage a more "green" America but in reality the only thing getting greener is the pockets of politicians and their friends who are receiving billions in "stimulating" bailouts. If you want to get the "green point" over effectively, do so! But lets not continue the hike in taxation to make a point, simply because that would open the door for greedy politicians to tax their point across on any given issue. Does Washington really need a door of opportunity such as this.. I don't think so. I mean isn't over taxation one of the reasons America became independent in the first place? Of coarse! Yet legislature is daily writing more taxes and regulatory mandates, politician defined today as: hypocrite, legless reptile in search of prey. The only way I personally would support any tax is if it were a "politician tax", how about passing that one Congress!

The middle class will be the definite loser if Congress were to pass such legislation. The economics of reality is that the cost of a tax on carbon or for that matter a tax on anything will ultimately be handed down to the everyday, hard working, over taxed middle class consumer. It is already hard enough to make ends meet in today's economy, why try to make it even harder by passing something else that will in return be passed to the American Citizen to pay for! Middle class America is wondering if this is "Freedom" or "Free- Doom" and it is the middle class that will not only pay for such legislation but feel the entire effect as well.

Who benefits from more taxation? "NOBODY" Not even the crooked elected officials who are squandering our tax dollars away on a daily basis. Increased taxation is a loose-loose scenario and should not even be contemplated no matter the purpose. To be free from over taxation and over regulation by government was the jest of the idea behind the Declaration of Independence. If we continue to elect politicians without moral values and without ethical foundations they will continue overtax us blind and take away the basic rights given in the Constitution. These politicians don't even realize the morbid future they are imposing on the future generations of this great nation or they just don't care.

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