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ANNOUNCER: After Washington wasted billions bailing out Wall Street and the auto industry, our economy is still hurting.
Unemployment is over 10 percent.
But our leaders in Congress just don’t get it.
These politicians in Washington are pushing a new energy tax that would be the largest in history, costing the average Indiana family over $115 a month.
Some estimates have this tax killing 2.4 million American jobs—nearly 60,000 in Indiana alone.
The Indiana unemployment rate is nearing a 25-year high.
Can we really afford to be hit with higher taxes and more job losses during this recession?
Congress seems to think so.
Call Senator Evan Bayh at 317 554-0750 and tell him Indiana can’t afford the higher energy bills and job losses caused by a new national energy tax.
Read the fact sheet here.
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Indiana electricity rates to sky rocket under plan pending before Congress
Washington, DC – With only days remaining until the U.S. House of Representatives casts an historic up-or-down vote on one of the largest tax hikes in the history of Congress, Congressman Brad Ellsworth (D-Ind.) has yet to state publicly where he stands on this measure – even as recent estimates suggest Indiana families could be among the hardest hit by it.
Under this proposal, the federal government would mandate the increased use of expensive, unreliable forms of power, which currently represent a mere 2.8 percent of the nation’s overall electricity usage. In total, less efficient renewable electricity accounts for 0.3 percent of Indiana’s power, which would have to increase by 4,312 percent by 2020 to reach this 15 percent mandate.
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The Waxman Markey Energy Tax is a tax on all carbon-based energy – coal, oil, and natural gas. That means that 98.6 percent of the energy that fuels the State of Indiana will be taxed. Nearly all of the remaining 1.4 percent of Indiana’s energy comes from carbon-free hydropower and biomass. Unfortunately, hydro power, and as much as half of Indiana’s biomass energy don’t count as “clean, renewable” energy under the “clean, renewable” electricity mandate included in the Waxman-Markey Energy Tax. In fact, less than 1 percent of the energy used to generate electricity in Indiana would be “government-approved” under the Waxman-Markey Energy Tax.
The text of the ad follows
Seems like all of us are working
harder in this economy just to make ends meet.
But the politicians in Washington,
DC don't seem to get it - voting to bailout Wall Street - rather
than helping Main Street.
And just when you think that
it can't get worse - some in Congress are now pushing an energy tax
that would be the largest tax hike in history.
Studies show that the bill,
known as the Waxman-Markey Energy Tax, could cost our family's more
than $3,100 per year in new taxes.
And that's not all - this
tax will further cripple our already struggling economy - costing
more American jobs.
Higher taxes and more job losses
- what could Congress be thinking?
Call Congressman Baron Hill
at (812) 288-3999. Tell him that we can't afford the Waxman-Markey
Energy Tax.
Read the whole fact sheet here
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