The Vermont House gave preliminary approval today to legislation that adds a new 55-cent monthly surcharge to my electric bill. The new “revenue” will fund the Clean Energy Development Fund.
Critics call the tax regressive.
Of course, it was OK, when Vermont Yankee covered the $6 million annual cost but lawmakers expect to shut that nuclear plant down next year.
If I lived in Gaza, I’d surely be peeved.
Long ago in the tiny Duchy of Grand Fenwick there hatched a plot to tap the unbelievable nation-building largesse the United States grants to pretty much anyone whom we bomb into the stone age.
The Palestinians, knowing this story, have been lobbing bombs and rocks and bullets as far as they could fling them (Israel) for 63 years or so and all that happens is that Israel spanks them.
Along come some rabble rousers in Libya (we don’t know who they are). About 63 minutes later, we send in the Tomahawks at a million bucks a pop (for a war that isn’t a war). Haliburton should be on the ground there with concrete trucks and “advisors” in six weeks.
We’re making a big mistake in Gaza as well as the North African nations now undergoing civil war. We ought not send in private contractors. We should show the entire region how the United States of America really builds nations.
It’s time to send in the big guns.
It’s time to send in FEMA.
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