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Grassfire Nation News Update:
New Name. New tax.

7/14/2010

Willard,

President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid met
behind closed doors yesterday developing a scheme to deliver
a comprehensive energy and climate package to the Senate
floor by month’s end.

According to Reid, the bill will require our nation’s
utility companies to pay a price for emitting carbon.
Appeasing liberal activists, the legislation will include
controversial greenhouse gas curbs.

++New names. New fees.

As reported by the Washington Examiner, Reid will not
include the words “cap on carbon emissions, a term that
has become politically toxic in recent months.”  Also
squelched are the phrases “Cap and Tax” and “greenhouse
gasses.” Instead, Reid is calling the bill an attack on
“pollution.”

Obama and Reid are simply changing the name
with the same end result: More government
control. New taxes. New fees.

++This bill must be DOA on the Senate floor

This legislation, by whatever name, must be stopped by
a vote on the Senate floor.

Many Senators are sitting on the fence
regarding which way they’ll vote. They
know this bill is “toxic” in a very
volatile election year for incumbents.

Now is the time to tell your Senators to vote
against this tax invasion masquerading as
a “Cap and Trade” bill – by another name.

+ + 400,000 petition signatures will flood the Senate

As of now, over 364,000 citizens, like you, have signed
the Grassfire petition urging the Senate to defeat any
“Cap and Tax” bill disguised as “climate change” legislation.
Grassfire Nation has scheduled the next hand-delivery
of petitions once that total exceeds 400,000 signers.

Thank you for already signing our petition.
For further impact, consider calling your
two Senators and let them know what you
think about imposing a new carbon tax on
the nation.

Sen. Specter            202-224-4254

Sen. Casey              202-224-6324

Willard, it is a forgone conclusion that we, the utility
customers, the end users, are the people who will
ultimately pay the price for this unnecessary tax and
legislation based on flawed findings.

President Obama has been determined to impose an unwanted
“Cap and Trade” agenda on unreceptive Americans using any
conceivable tactic.

Using the Gulf Oil Spill, our nations’ worst
environmental catastrophe as a catalyst, Obama
called for new climate legislation. He
threatened to have the EPA enact regulatory
authority to impose new standards and fees
on industries, which Congress rejected. Now,
yet another attempt to crack open the door
with a scaled back version of the same Obama
trickery.

We must short-circuit this legislation. Let the Senate hear
your voice by signing the petition. These 400,000 signatures
will be hand-delivered to your Senator’s doors the week Reid
unveils his newly named “Cap and Tax.”

Please forward this message to 20-30 friends, urging them
to join with you against Obama’s coming “Cap and Tax”
scheme by clicking on the link below:

http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?u=29862&PID=16236096

Again, make your calls, and then forward this important update.
With your help we can rally and mobilize an additional 50,000
signers – pushing us past the 400,000 petition mark in the days ahead.

Thanks again for taking action with us!

Your friends at Grassfire Nation

P.S. A new tax by another other name still picks Americans’
pockets the same.  It’s our imposed cost for more government
control. Click here to sign our petition.

http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?u=29862&PID=16236096

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