A glimpse of the future
From Christopher Horner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute at
Watts Up With That:
FOIA and the coming US Carbon Tax via the US Treasury
In November, I and CEI sued the Department of the Treasury to produce emails and other records mentioning �carbon�. See Joint_Scheduling_Agreement PDF.
I sought emails and other documents from two offices: Environment and Energy (really), and Legislative Affairs. This action after the administration first ignored us, which they followed with an unfortunate stumble, trying to delay us with fees � even absurd and surely anti-�green� ones, like $1,800 to photocopy electronic mail, typically copied on a disc for no charge � which fees, even when they�re not mindlessly trumped up like that one, not-for-profit groups which disseminate government information are exempt by statute from paying.
Delay can only work only so well once we file suit, and recently Treasury turned over a first production of approximately 770 pages of reports. Despite its better efforts Treasury managed to hand over some docs that in an attentive world should prove extremely useful, offering fantastic language if often buried in pointy-headed advice they received in Power Points and papers from the IMF, G-20 and, in graphic terms, an analysis from the World Bank on how to bring a carbon tax about.
These documents represent thoughtful advice on how to mug the American taxpayer and coerce them out of unacceptable and anti-social behavior, diverting at least 10% of the spoils to overseas wealth transfers. The major focus is language, how to sell it to the poor saps not by noting the cost or that it is a tax but as, for example, the way to be the leader in something like solar technology.
Read the whole thing -- this is downright chilling.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute
website is here.
These are the same people that are pushing the EPA to release the emails from Richard Windsor -- the false account of head Lisa Jackson. She 'retired' when this came to light.
Posted by DaveH at March 23, 2013 4:39 PM