today's lesson: you have too much freedom and pay too little tax
hey don't you think it's awesome our president banned clove cigarettes last week (but made the US safe for those menthols he likes) and is going to tackle the fireplace epidemic next week, while at the same time Iran piles the bodies of protesters into dump trucks to haul them off?

"My call to every senator, as well as to every American, is this," Barry said. "We cannot be afraid of the future. And we must not be prisoners of the past. Don't believe the misinformation out there that suggests there is somehow a contradiction between investing in clean energy and economic growth."

our smoker-in-chief is full of shit. there is already plenty of economic incentive to invest in clean energy. we don't need higher taxes to do so. nor do we need an energy audit to find out how efficient our homes are and wether we posses "carbon emitters" to see what drastic changes need to be made to property before it changes hands.

more taxes will not change this planet's climate. if you drink the global warming kool-aid then you know that we're on an irreversible road to devastation, if you are completely skeptical you don't care because its irrelevant, and if you're in between it only makes sense if you have your head buried in the sand and don't see all the effort in the past 10 years put towards non-fossil-fuel-based energy, which most people can tell is obviously necessary without the government pissing them off in an effort to remind them it is.