Comments on: HB 1139: Greenbacks for Green Business

By: Rattlerjake

Rattlerjake — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 19:20:37 +0000

NC has already had a “solyndra” of it’s own. Only a couple of years ago the was a bio diesel company around Laurinburg that received millions of federal dollars as well as millions in incentives from the state. The business ran one batch, decided that the corn prices were too high and closed down and took the tax dollars with them.

By: Donald DaCosta

Donald DaCosta — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:55:16 +0000

You don’t get it. The environmentalists driving these experiments in control by college educated, intellectual elites are never wrong. It is the rest of us who “don’t get it.” The sky is falling and the proletariat are too helpless and ignorant to see into the dire future that awaits if these self appointed “futurists” don’t get their way. We, the everyday working folk, are in desperate need for their help to avert the disaster that awaits us. The poisoned air, polluted water and contaminated food, the rising seas, melting ice, mass animal extinctions, the death of the planet. The free market can’t be trusted. Government intervention, despite what the majority of the populace thinks, feels or suffers economically. No matter. The planet must be saved.

A college education is a wonderful thing providing most who graduate with the knowledge and skills to succeed in a free market, capitalist society but it also provides fertile ground for ideologues and zealots who thrive on controversy; non-conformists who believe that conventional wisdom, confronted, disputed, refuted by agenda driven “science” and turned into a national crusade culminating in a surreptitious acquisition of power, is the ultimate badge of success.

This is the Green movement and the politicians who’ve been sold on the premise that government is the only solution to the problem of what they perceive as public ignorance. Conventional wisdom, based on the American experiment, the most successful if yet imperfect system of societal organization, individual freedom, the natural competitive forces of the free market, capitalism, entrepreneurism with limited, targeted government interference continues to be challenged and continues to prove itself superior to every attempt at “improvement.”

The Obama administration represents the latest and one of the most aggressive efforts to effect change, a disaster in the making. That many continue to support it and applaud it should have those of us who see it clearly for the pending national and international calamity that awaits if he is reelected in November, should have us all more than a bit concerned.

By: Dayne Brown

Dayne Brown — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:35:11 +0000

These political efforts to “facilitate” the capitalist system actually undermine it. There is no credible basis to claims that such tax breaks will pay for themselves. Rather, they support and prop up ill-conceived business models which are more likely to fail in the end, taking the public’s tax dollars with them.

By: Rhett Forman

Rhett Forman — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:21:26 +0000

Rep. Tillis voted in favor of Senate Bill 3 (Promote Renewable Energy) when it went to the House back in 2007. In fact, the bill only had nine dissenters in the House and one in the Senate. It seems that conservatives and liberals alike are somewhat unaware of the problems associated with “green” legislation. Conservatives think that it will promote jobs while liberals hope to help the environment when actually it is just a burden on businesses.

By: Richard Matthews

Richard Matthews — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:22:22 +0000

They never learn to leave the economy alone and let the consumers be the driving force. What is speaker Tillis’s opinion on this waste of taxpayer’s money to subsidies certain businesses?

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Waste Energy a Waste - Civitas Review — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:24:54 +0000

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