{"id":3450,"date":"2010-06-18T20:11:30","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T20:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3450"},"modified":"2010-06-18T20:40:41","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T20:40:41","slug":"tax-farming-you-to-help-wall-street-get-richer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3450","title":{"rendered":"Tax Farming You to Help Wall Street Get Richer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_bI-SlPuLR-Y\/SbqtYgzJmrI\/AAAAAAAADaM\/aeWeoYg6_P4\/s400\/obama-geithner-happy_tbi.jpg\" height=\"300\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/page.cfm?tagID=22819\"> justification <\/a>keeps <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politicsdaily.com\/2010\/06\/15\/after-oil-spill-need-for-cap-and-trade-bill-is-urgent-dems-say\/\">changing<\/a> for a cap-and-trade bill, but <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/opinion\/opedcolumnists\/gallon_gas_9GlF3o1xIcIBelOV3k0RsK\">the target is gas at $ 7 a gallon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Can you afford that?<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.instituteforenergyresearch.org\/2010\/05\/11\/wall-street-wins-with-cap-and-trade-consumers-lose\/\">Hundreds<\/a> of b<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/politics\/2009\/06\/could-cap-and-trade-cause-another-market-meltdown\">illions<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.economicpopulist.org\/content\/cap-trade-new-derivatives-market-wall-street\">stand<\/a> to be <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/TomBorelli\/2009\/03\/07\/cap_and_trade_wall_streets_latest_scheme\">made<\/a> by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.americanconservativedaily.com\/2010\/05\/kerry-lieberman-cap-and-trade-bill-rewards-wall-street\/\">Wall St<\/a>. firms\u00a0in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/robert-j-shapiro\/goldman-scandal-erodes-ca_b_554137.html\">trading<\/a> carbon credits. A market that can only exist by government fiat. These firms are <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.portfolio.com\/graphics\/2008\/04\/Wall-Street-Divided-Loyalties\">major donors to the Democratic Party and the Obama campaign<\/a>. They are also quietly\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/23\/AR2010022305537.html\">hedging their bets with the GOP<\/a>. If <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123655590609066021.html\">everyone<\/a> just pitches in and does with a few thousand dollars less, executive bonuses can continue to grow through government subsidies.<\/p>\n<p>They play, you will pay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The justification keeps changing for a cap-and-trade bill, but the target is gas at $ 7 a gallon. Can you afford that? Hundreds of billions stand to be made by Wall St. firms\u00a0in trading carbon credits. A market that can only exist by government fiat. These firms are major donors to the Democratic Party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,151,277,309,185,332,425,588,187,251,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-conspiracy","category-corporations","category-criminals","category-democratic-party","category-economics","category-government","category-oligarchy","category-politics","category-republican-party","category-state-failure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}