2. February 2010 by admin.

The Death of Global Warming
The global warming movement as we have known it is dead.  Its health had been in steady decline during the last year as the once robust hopes for a strong and legally binding treaty to be agreed upon at the Copenhagen Summit faded away.  By the time that summit opened, campaigners were reduced to hoping for a ‘politically binding’ agreement to be agreed that would set the stage for the rapid adoption of the legally binding treaty.  After the failure of the summit to agree to even that much, the movement went into a rapid decline….

……The urge to make the data better than it was didn’t just come out of nowhere.  The global warmists were trapped into the necessity of hyping the threat by their realization that the actual evidence they had — which, let me emphasize, all hype aside, is serious, troubling and establishes in my mind the need for intensive additional research and investigation, as well as some prudential steps that would reduce CO2 emissions by enhancing fuel use efficiency and promoting alternative energy sources — was not sufficient to get the world’s governments to do what they thought needed to be done. Hyping the threat increasingly doesn’t look like an accident: it looks like it was a conscious political strategy…..

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http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/02/01/the-death-of-global-warming/

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2. February 2010 by admin.

 Global Warming collapse limited to Europe- an excellent article

http://paul-reveres-riders.ning.com/profiles/blogs/global-warming-science?xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_url

Global warming science implodes overseas: American media silent
Rick Moran

The revelations have been nothing short of jaw dropping. Dozens - yes dozens - of claims made in the IPCC 2007 report on climate change that was supposed to represent the “consensus” of 2500 of the world’s climate scientists have been shown to be bogus, or faulty, or not properly vetted, or simply pulled out of thin air.

We know this because newspapers in Great Britain are doing their job; vetting the 2007 report item by item, coming up with shocking news about global warming claims that formed the basis of argument by climate change advocates who were pressuring the US and western industrialized democracies to transfer trillions of dollars in wealth to the third world and cede sovereignty to the UN.

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http://paul-reveres-riders.ning.com/profiles/blogs/global-warming-science?xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_url

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2. February 2010 by admin.

Tax Alert

Study: Colorado Tax Proposals Push State Away from Proper Tax Base

Sales Tax Expansion Would Include Business-to-Business Transactions, Soda and Candy

Washington, DC, February 1, 2010 — Colorado legislators are scheduled to vote on a handful of tax proposals today that, if enacted, would lead to double taxation of many products and unfairly punish select industries, according to a new Tax Foundation report.

Two proposals would move the state’s tax system in the right direction, according to the Tax Foundation’s analysis: a bill to eliminate the state’s alternative minimum tax, which would reduce tax complexity without sacrificing a lot of revenue ($5.5 million in FY 2009), and a bill to limit tax credits for fuel-efficient cars.

“Lawmakers should be commended for their willingness to reexamine targeted tax breaks, but unfortunately, much of the legislation they’re considering today would move the state farther away from sound tax policy,” said Tax Foundation Staff Economist Mark Robyn, who authored the new report, “Handful of Proposals Would Push Colorado Away From the Proper Tax Base.” The report is No. 208 in the Tax Foundation’s Fiscal Fact series and is available online at http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/25779.html.

Several of the proposals would expand the sales tax base to include various business inputs, in effect leading to double taxation: once at the production level and again at the retail level. These bills include taxes on direct mail advertising materials (HB 1189), fuels and electricity used in manufacturing (HB 1190), fast food containers and bags (HB 1194), and various agricultural inputs (HB 1195).

Another bill (HB 1191) would rewrite tax law to exclude soda and candy from the sales tax exemption for groceries. While a proper broad-based, low-rate sales tax that includes all end-user purchases should apply to soda and candy as well as all groceries, the Tax Foundation report notes that it’s clear soda and candy were singled out as politically popular targets.

HB 1192 would reclassify certain types of standardized software as tangible personal property and thereby subject them to the sales tax, regardless of whether the software was both sold to an end user and sold by a retailer with nexus in the state. Finally, HB 1193 would enact a so-called “Amazon tax” to force online retailers to collect sales taxes. Such laws greatly expand the power of state government to collect taxes from out-of-state businesses and should be avoided, according to the report.

“Reexamining some of the nitty-gritty tax policies buried deep within state statutes is a good idea,” Robyn said. “Targeted tax breaks for special interests, or ‘tax expenditures,’ are really just government spending funneled through the tax code. But legislators should keep in mind that some tax exemptions exist to prevent economically damaging double taxation.”

The Tax Foundation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that has monitored fiscal policy at the federal, state and local levels since 1937.

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Tax Foundation Fiscal Fact No. 208, “Handful of Proposals Would Push Colorado Away From the Proper Tax Base,” is available online at http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/25779.html. To schedule an interview, please contact Natasha Altamirano, the Tax Foundation’s Manager of Media Relations, at (202) 464-5102 or naltamirano@taxfoundation.org.

Update:

Colorado Legislation Moves To Senate
Today, as expected, Colorado HB1193 passed the official recorded vote. The vote was 33 for and 32 against. The Colorado Affiliate tax legislation moves onto the Senate. It will go through a similar process. …
Affiliate Advocacy - http://affiliateadvocacy.com/

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