WI State Legislature crafting Cap and Trade Bill Posted by greatscott

Posted 02/01/10

Because Cap and Trade did not pass in Congress or at the Copenhagen Summit, the Globalist have infiltrated our State Government.  Now we know why Doyle went to Copenhagen in December at Tax Payer Expense.

The Wisconsin legislature is crafting their own version of Cap and Trade Legislature, and every state in the country is doing this.  The House bill is AB649 
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The Senate version is SB450  
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There is a Public hearing scheduled for Wednesday, February 10th at 10 AM on SB 450.  Please spread the word, we need to pack the building to overpower them in opposition to this garbage.  Please contact your local News Media Outlets and get the word out.  I am bringing down as many people from the Appleton-Green Bay area that I can.

 February 10, 10 AM   412 East, State Capitol

 Senate Bill 450-             Relating to: goals for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, for construction of zero net energy buildings and for energy conservation; information, analyses, reports, education, and training concerning greenhouse gas emissions and climate change; energy efficiency and renewable resource programs; renewable energy requirements of electric utilities and retail cooperatives; requiring electric utilities to purchase renewable energy from certain renewable facilities in their service territories; authority of the Public Service Commission over nuclear power plants; motor vehicle emission limitations; a low carbon standard for transportation fuels; the brownfield site assessment grant program, the main street program, the brownfields grant program, the forward innovation fund, grants to local governments for planning activities, the transportation facilities economic assistance and development program, a model parking ordinance; surface transportation planning by the Department of Transportation and metropolitan planning organizations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; environmental evaluations for transportation projects; idling limits for certain vehicles; energy conservation codes for public buildings, places of employment, one- and two-family dwellings, and agricultural facilities; design standards for state buildings; energy efficiency standards for certain consumer audio and video devices, boiler inspection requirements; greenhouse gas emissions and energy use by certain state agencies and state assistance to school districts in achieving energy efficiencies; creating an exception to local levy limits for amounts spent on energy efficiency measures; creating an energy crop reserve program; identification of private forest land, promoting sequestration of carbon in forests, qualifying practices and cost-share requirements under the forest grant program established by the Department of Natural Resources; air pollution permits for certain stationary sources reducing greenhouse gas emissions; allocating a portion of existing tax-exempt industrial development revenue bonding to clean energy manufacturing facilities and renewable power generating facilities; requiring a report on certain programs to limit greenhouse gas emissions; granting rule-making authority; requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; and providing a penalty.

By Senators Miller and Plale; cosponsored by Representatives Black and Soletski, by request of Governor James E. Doyle.

Wisconsin C4L State Convention - March 27th & 28th Posted by ToddWelch

Posted 01/16/10 Last updated 01/28/10

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Wisconsin's Answer to Nationalized Health Care Posted by ToddWelch

Posted 01/18/10

2009 SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION (LRB-3861/1)

Compulsory healthcare is NOT A POWER GRANTED by the US Constitution to the federal government!

HOW ARE THE PEOPLE OF WISCONSIN RESPONDING?

• Wisconsin is joining 29 other states in proposing an amendment (LRB-3861/1) to our state constitution in order to preserve our right to choice in private healthcare, allowing the state of Wisconsin to “opt out” of government healthcare.
• The 10th amendment reserves those rights that are not granted to the federal government to the states. If our United States Constitution does not list it, the federal government CANNOT do it!
• IMPORTANT: This is NOT the same "opt" out version that was addressed in Washington. The difference is that the Wisconsin amendment would seek to eliminate the requirement for Wisconsinites to pay for the government plan.

WHAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP AMEND THE CONSTITUTION?

• In the next legislature session beginning January 19, 2010, Joint Resolutions will be introduced in the Wisconsin Assembly and Senate.
• Call, e-mail, fax and write your state representative and state senator and let them know that you support this amendment proposal and that you expect them to vote for it (Get their contact info here). Tell them that they need to stand with the people of Wisconsin and preserve our liberties by limiting government and taxes.
• Get the word out to friends, family and people you meet. Discuss it, Blog it, Facebook it, Tweet it, text it and e-mail it to everyone you know. Knowledge is power and we need power to preserve our rights!
• Express support to Wisconsin Legislators by calling the Wisconsin Legislative hotline: 1.800.362.9472 and urge them to pass this bill in Committee and advance to the floor for a vote!!!

Sound Money and Fair Taxes Posted by tnerenz

Posted 01/09/10

http://timnerenz.com/content/sound-money-and-fair-taxes


2009 was a pretty bad year for the Constitution, but 1913 was worse: it was the year that the Federal Reserve was created and taxing income was legalized.

I don't expect "Repeal the 16th Amendment" will replace "O Sucks!" as the student section chant of choice at next year's Badger games, but it is those students and everyone in their age group who would gain the most if we would return to the principled economics of sound money and proportional taxation. They would not be facing a $225,000 per-job share of the national debt and they would earn orders of magnitude higher incomes when they graduate.

You won't find the Federal Reserve anywhere in the Constitution; it assigns Congress the sole responsibility for maintaining a sound and stable currency in Article I, section 8. In section 9, it even prohibits states from accepting fiat money (what the Fed issues) as repayment for debts. This was not a careless omission; the framers observed how the central banks of Europe oppressed the common folk and enriched the ruling elites.

The founding fathers knew that a central bank was incompatible with the ideal of limited and subservient government. For the first American century there was no central bank and we prospered as no other nation has before or since. Then, in 1913, the so-called progressives abandoned the Constitution and created the Federal Reserve, giving it complete autonomy over the money supply. Bad move.

In 1913, the first Federal Reserve Notes (the dollar) were coupons redeemable for one ounce of gold. Either one ounce of gold or one U.S. dollar could purchase a decent rifle, as was the case in 1813, a century earlier. Today, a decent rifle can still be purchased with ounce of gold, but it would take over 1,000 of those Federal Reserve notes to buy either one.

Gold and rifles cost the same, but the dollar has lost 99.9% of its value, thanks to the Federal Reserve and its inflationary issuance of fiat money - money not backed by tangible assets. We should abolish the Federal Reserve and return to the Constitutional mandate of sound money.

I personally prefer a currency tied to a BTU - unit of energy - while others prefer a return to the gold standard, and others a basket of commodities. It is not so important how our money is anchored, but that it is. We can not have a strong economy without a strong dollar, and we will never have a strong dollar while we have the Federal Reserve.

And while we are at it, we should also repeal the 16th amendment and abolish all taxes on income. Income is the product of a person's labor and no one else has a rightful claim to it. A slave is a person who has lost his right to 100% of the product of his labor; a tax-slave is a person who is 2/3 of the way there.

Before the 16th amendment changed it, the Constitution required the government to tax people, not the product of their work. And it required any form of tax to be proportional to the census, just like representation in Congress. The principle is simple: one person, one vote, one unit of tax. That is equality.

That principle held government in check for a century, with government spending below 5% of GDP. And government only spent money on things that benefited everyone, since everyone was taxed equally. During the 1800's we became the most prosperous people in the history of the world, and not by accident.

In the first American century, Americans flourished because American government was constrained. In the second, it was American government that flourished while Americans were constrained. Our government now spends nearly 50% of GDP, and with unfunded mandates on the private sector added, the total is over 60%.

And our tax system no longer taxes citizens equally; it punishes some to benefit others. Our current tax code punishes work, savings, investment, thrift, and exports. It rewards spending, debt, taxation, and imports. It is not difficult to understand why we have too little of the former and too much of the latter.

Worse yet, our tax system insures corruption of the political process - it is the mechanism by which politicians reward contributors and punish opponents. It is how votes are bought in Congress. It distorts the markets and produces economic inefficiency. It screws the little guy. The current tax system is indefensible.

We can not immediately return to a proportional tax with the size of government that we have today; the cost of citizenship would be approximately $20,000 per person, $80,000 for a family of four. Now, you might be thinking this can't possibly be right; you may not even make $80,000.

And that is precisely the point; the reason you don't make more than $80,000 is because the government has taxed it out of the economy where you could have earned it. Granted, some people would earn more of it than other people would, but that still beats Nancy Pelosi taking all of it.

This could never have happened under the original Constitutional requirement for proportional taxation, and it is why the 16th amendment needs to be repealed. It's why the 16th amendment matters to you, why the students at Camp Randall should be chanting for it to be repealed - but not at the expense of Jump Around, the greatest stadium tradition in the history of spectator sports.

But we can take an intermediate step that can put us on the path to ending confiscatory taxation, and give everyone a vested interest in reducing the size of government. We should scrap the whole system of federal taxes and replace them with one universal tax on retail consumption - the FairTax. In the process, we can dispense with the IRS, freeing up over $400 billion that is currently being spent each year on compliance with its ridiculously complex codes.

You can read all about FairTax at www.fairtax.org and you can learn about the movement to End The Fed at http://endthefedusa.ning.com/.

President Obama insists we need another economic stimulus because his first one didn't work. I agree with him 100%. End the Fed and abolish the IRS - that is my economic stimulus plan.





Tim Nerenz is the Libertarian Party Candidate for U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin's 2nd District. To support Dr. Tim's campaign, please visit the campaign website at www.timnerenz.com.

Campaign for Liberty Voter Identification Survey Posted by Lucius Junius Brutus

Posted 01/03/10 Last updated 01/03/10

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