Texas leader walks citizens through important "cap and trade" debate and what it means to you

Commissioner Michael Williams (R-TX) has begun a multi-part series on the “cap and trade” legislation making its way through Congress.



Part 1: http://www.williamsfortexas.com/posts/14



Each day this week, Commissioner Williams will post the next part of the series. The goal is to educate what “cap and trade” is and expose it for what it truly is: a national energy tax that will harm all Texans and Americans.



The education portion is important. In May of this year, Rasmussen reported the following findings:

“Given a choice of three options, just 24% of voters can correctly identify the cap-and-trade proposal as something that deals with environmental issues. A slightly higher number (29%) believe the proposal has something to do with regulating Wall Street while 17% think the term applies to health care reform. A plurality (30%) have no idea.”



Subsequent topics will include:

• Waiting to exhale: the EPA endangerment finding

• Cap and trade 101

• All cap and trade programs are not created equal

• The disproportionate adverse impact CO2 cap and trade will have on Texas

• It’s worthless without China

• How you can help!

San Antonio voters should tell city to take a hike

After seeing what Bexar County has in store for taxpayers, that's my line and I'm sticking to it.

The Bexar County Commissioners Court voted unanimously earlier this month to present San Antonio voters with a $415 million venue tax increase measure on the May ballot.

From KSAT.com:

The six projects include: about $125 million to finish an extension of the San
Antonio River, about $100 million to convert Municipal Auditorium into a
performing arts center, $100 million for improvements to the AT&T Center and
Freeman Coliseum, $80 million for various amateur sports facilities across the
city, $4 million for the Briscoe Art Museum and $6 million for the Alameda
Theatre.

Basically, a lot of money for tourism projects.

San Antonio is a great city - if you haven't been, go as soon as you can, and see the Alamo early in the morning before the throng of tourists spoils the ambience - but do San Antonio taxpayers really need to be saddled with this?

Marc Levin with Texans for Fiscal Responsibility has a great breakdown on what kind of damage this tax hike could do to San Antonio.