Biggest. Tax. Evar. - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Yes, ladies and gentleman, the White House is apparently fully aware that they are proposing the largest ta- . . . er, "revenue measure" . . . in the history of the Republic — likely, it seems, to be at least twice as large as the largest to date, the $107 billion (adjusted to 2007 dollars) per year (expiring) tax to pay off WWII.

Since the president already indicated to the Business Roundtable on Thursday that he's facing reality, and backing off his call for selling all of the ration coupons and instead handing them out to industry (no doubt with some fig-leaf percentage sold and with a promise to sell them all, sometime over the horizon — you know, like closing Gitmo), this tax is to pay off GE, Duke Energy, and the rest of Enron's carcass-pickers and Ken Lay proteges who took Lay's very specific business model with them.

Wind Watch: Wolfe Island is sacrificial lamb of green energy policy

With the Green Energy and Green Economy Act, it actually seems as though Ontarians are being asked to “buy in” to having no say as to what happens in their “backyard.” The wind turbine development on Wolfe Island is not only unsightly on what was once a beautiful, peaceful and pastoral island but it will provide insignificant power to the grid at only intermittent intervals. When it fails to provide the promised energy, the province will then be able to say “I tried” and go ahead with the nuclear installations that they know will solve the problem. In the meantime, developers have bulldozed wetlands and destroyed habitat and offer only “mitigation” after the fact. How can you “mitigate” the destruction of a community? Wolfe Island will be the sacrificial lamb and will only serve to create even more concern and uproar about the merits of this energy source.