This welfare for the well-off – costing billions of dollars a year – is being paid for with the taxes of the less fortunate, many who are working two jobs just to make ends meet, and IOUs to be paid off by future generations. – Sen. Tom A. Coburn, M.D.
Post Tagged with: "energy subsidies"
October 13, 2011 09:10
$80 million for each solar job – Obama’s green “investment”
French company buys majority interest in Sunpower after DOE loan guarantee. – FoxNews.com
October 4, 2011 08:53
Is Harry Reid-Backed Nevada Geothermal the Next Solyndra?
A year and a half and $145 million in taxpayer financing later, and the company that built the plant is in dire financial straits.
August 29, 2011 06:41
Obama’s snake oil: Spreading “Big Oil subsidy” disinformation
The worst thing we can do is what President Obama is intent on doing: use the mythical revenues he expects from eliminating oil company “subsidies and tax breaks” to increase federal wind, solar and ethanol subsidies by another 50% (to $18 billion a year)
May 4, 2011 04:48
Will Conservatives Embrace Paul Ryan’s Call to End Corporate Welfare?
Here’s hoping that conservatives follow free-market principles. Having a strong, rational, conservative Republican party to counterbalance the strong, irrational, liberal Democrat party is a must for America’s wellbeing.
March 28, 2011 03:56
Against All Energy Anywhere
Were it not for Green propaganda, the U.S. would not be wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on idiotic wind and solar farms that are utterly dependent on government subsidies and mandates that require utilities to use the pitifully small amounts of electricity they produce.
March 25, 2011 04:41
The Energy Myth That Won’t Die
The real greed lies, mutually, in private “investors” chasing public funds for private profit with the complicity of politicians. Politicians promote energy alternatives and then harvest campaign cash from the recipients of taxpayer handouts.
March 3, 2011 06:34
Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Farmhouse Porch
[T]he “temporary” programs intended to offset the worst effects of the Great Depression have morphed into the bloated, corrupt, regressive and damaging programs we see today.
January 18, 2011 07:49
The No Subsidies Energy Policy
If Obama wants to set us on a path to a sustainable-energy future – and a green one, too – he should propose a very simple solution to the current mess: eliminate all energy subsidies. Yes, all of them – oil, coal, gas, nuclear, ethanol, and wind and solar.
January 14, 2011 05:25
America Is Losing the Resource Race
In effect, Obama has sold out his country to every special interest group opposed to resource development and economic growth. Sadly, Americans will be paying for price for this administration’s enslavement to these special interests for decades to come.
