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Dear W. L.,
Would President Obama's Environmental
Protection Agency really force Americans
to pay a tax on "rainwater
runoff" from homes and small
businesses?
You bet they would. In fact, the
EPA, under radical environmentalist Lisa
Jackson, is proposing regulations
to do just that.
Take a look at the EPA's own Federal
Register filing, where the EPA
generally describes the initiative it's
proposing:
...requirements, including design or
performance standards, for stormwater
discharges from, at minimum, newly
developed and redeveloped sites. EPA
intends to propose regulatory options
that would revise the NPDES
regulations and establish a
comprehensive program to address
stormwater discharges from newly
developed and redeveloped sites and to
take final action no later than
November 2012. (Source)
This is bureaucratic-speak for having
the EPA force cities and counties to
limit stormwater runoff to levels the
EPA deems acceptable. Limiting
"rainwater runoff" will mean
forcing homeowners and businesses to pay
new taxes in order to rein in
rainwater, and that's no pun intended.
Think about just how big-government this
is. A Washington, D.C. bureaucracy
plans on forcing your local county or
city to slap new taxes on you and me
because this big-government bureaucracy
wants to micro-manage rainwater across
the entire country. Already,
several counties and cities across the
United States are moving to pass new
taxes and fees in anticipation of the
new EPA rules, including cities in
states as disparate as Florida, Ohio and
Kansas. For more details CLICK
HERE
But really, this new EPA outrage is part
of the pattern of the Obama
Administration. Cap-and-trade is
bogged down for now in the Senate
(though they'll try to bring it back
this year), so the liberals try to
use an un-elected bureaucracy to pass
their radical agenda. First, they
declared that greenhouse gases are a
"threat" to the environment
and to health, so they're pushing new
regulations that will in effect pass
cap-and-trade without Congress having to
act. Now, they're pushing this new
"rainwater runoff" tax.
Just last month, Americans for
Prosperity launched a national effort to
stop this big government over-reach by
the EPA. We're calling it
the Regulation Reality Tour™,
and we launched it in Arkansas with events
across the state. Click
HERE for photos. On April 19 we will
begin the second leg of our tour in
Colorado, with a third leg launching
in Indiana and Ohio in early May.
I hope to see you on the road as we take
on Obama's EPA!
Our goal is simple: educate Americans on
the threat to their freedoms and our
economy from the EPA's arrogant,
nutty agenda. The EPA's head, Lisa
Jackson, attended the Climate
Change conference in Copenhagen where
she stated her intention to
"transform" the way the
American economy works using her
bureaucracy. I was there in the
room and heard her say it.
EPA is such a runaway bureaucracy at
this point that only Congress can stop
them. Thankfully, Alaska Senator
Lisa Murkowski has a proposal to do just
that. Murkowski has a resolution
of disapproval—which would stop EPA in
its tracks—that has been gathering
steam, but we need your help to put her
over the top. CLICK
HERE to take action and tell your
senators to support S.J.Res. 26.
Make sure they know you will hold them
accountable if they don't help pass
Murkowski's resolution. Any
lawmakers who won't stand up to stop the
EPA are complicit in the onerous
regulations they are trying to pass.
Spring is here. All things begin
anew. And that includes renewing
the fight for our freedoms.
Tim Phillips
PS: I just finished a
father/son trip with my 16-year-old twin
boys. It was great fun. On
the airplane especially, my sons talked
about what they wanted to do in the
years to come. Hearing them talk
about their futures, I was reminded
of something Ronald Reagan said –
freedom is never more than one
generation from extinction. As
usual, President Reagan was right.
Let's make sure we keep doing our part
to ensure that our generation passes on
to our children and grandchildren the
same freedoms we enjoyed.
Please click
here to contact your senators and
tell them to stop the EPA.
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Thanks!
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