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Solvency Deficit Laundry List

Multiple problems wit LOST!orows"i #$%- Policy Analyst at FreedomWorks, Charles G. Koch Summer Fellow with the Institute for umane Studies ! Center forCom"etiti#e Politics, Go#ernment affairs associate ! Americans for $a% &eform '(ulie, )$he *.+.s aw of the Sea $reaty $hreatens ur +ationalSo#erei/nty0, $own all, 1ay 23st,htt"455townhall.com5columnists56ulie7orowski5893859:5235the;uns;law;of;the;sea;treaty;threatens;our;national;so#erei/nty5"a/e5full59 to the a#era/ehouseholds ener/y 7ill, and "ermanently raise the "rice of /asoline 7y cents "er /allon. It would ine#ita7lyraise the "rice for 7asic /oods and cause millions of Americans to lose their 6o7s . $he scientific de7ate on anthro"ro/enic/lo7al warmin/ continues to ra/e. We shouldnt sacrifice our standard of li#in/ 7ased on this unsettled issue. &emem7er that some scientists werewarnin/ us a7out man-made /lo7al coolin/ in the 3@>9s. $I1? 1a/aBine e#en ran a co#er story on )ow to Sur#i#e the Comin/ Ice A/e0 in A"ril 3@>>.

Climate chan/e fear-mon/erin/ has 7een /oin/ on for decadesJlets not fall for the "ro"a/anda so easily. $he *.+. is o"enly hostile to ournational so#erei/nty and re"u7lican form of /o#ernment. $he ratification of S$ would o"en u" a Pandoras=o% of "ro7lems. It would im"ose /lo7al ta%es and re/ulations that cri""le economic /rowth while e%"osin/oursel#es to hi/h-stakes en#ironmental lawsuits. We need to sink S$ once and for all.


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Solvency Deficit Soverei&nty

LOST arms 'S national interest and soverei&nty(roves #$$- =ernard and =ar7ara omas Senior &esearch Fellow at $he erita/e Foundation 'Ste#en, ) ACC?SSI+ $ $? *.+. C+?+$I++ $? AW F $? S?A IS *++?C?SSA&L $ S?C*&? *.S. +AIGA$I+A &IG$S A+E F&??E1S,0 State +ews Ser#ice, Au/ust 8 th, le%is>2Fo&So>dPi$5story.html:32899::35Qs"thsXor7n: "er cent of emissions, des"ite the fact that the industry-7est

"ractice routinely ca"tures more than @9 "er cent of emissions. +ot only does the Go#ernments car7on ta% failto reco/nise the amount of /as ca"tured a7o#e >: "er cent, it acti#ely discriminates a/ainst hi/her le#els ofca"ture. 1y 7ack/round on this issue is as chairman of a com"any 7ack in the late @9s that de#elo"ed the first inte/rated "lant to recycle household/ar7a/e as an alternati#e to landfill. A key feature of our "rocess was to aim to e%tract nearly 399 "er cent of the methane /as, which would otherwise 7eemitted from landfill o#er some 29-399 years, in a7out 8 hours, and con#ertin/ that /as to electricity which was then used initially to "ower the "lant,

with the remainder 7ein/ sold into the /rid. $he "articular weakness of the method "ro"osed under the GillardGo#ernment le/islation for calculatin/ the car7on ta% lia7ility of a landfill o"erator is that a landfill o"eratorca"a7le of ca"turin/ 399 "er cent of /as would 7e financially rewarded for turnin/ off the /as ca"ture at >: "ercent and dischar/in/ the remainder of the /reenhouse /ases into the atmos"here. For e%am"le, if a landfillsannual /as emission is 'say< 399,999 tonnes, and the o"erator ca"tures >: "er cent, the car7on ta% ofH825tonne will 7e le#ied on the remainin/ 8: "er cent, or 8:,999 tonnes, for a total of H:>:,999. If theo"erator actually ca"tures 399 "er cent 'i.e. 399,999 tonnes: "er cent, and that the total /as emitted must ha#e 7een 322,999 tonnes, there7y e%"osin/ the

o"erator to a car7on ta% "enalty of H>:@,999. So, under this e%am"le, a landfill o"erator has a H3,999incenti#e to turn the /as ca"ture of at >: "er cent. ow is it that a ta% desi/ned to "enalise "olluters couldactually reward themQ $he Go#ernments error in this calculation method is 7oth distur7in/ and 7iBarre. It failsthe McommonsenseM test. It raises the Duestion as to what other anomalies may e%ist in the detail of thele/islation.$he Go#ernment must immediately reconsider this calculation method if its le/islation is not to

7ecome an en#ironmental lau/hin/ stock.1ore 7roadly, e#en thou/h I ha#e 7een a lon/-term ad#ocate of the ur/ent need to "ut a "riceon car7on, I cannot understand why the Go#ernment is willin/ to do itself /ratuitous harm 7y "ersistin/ with the initial fi%ed "rice of H825tonne, whenthe world "rice is "resently closer to a7out one third that fi/ure. $he Go#ernment would 7e much 7etter ad#ised to e#en delay the introduction of acar7on "rice so as to "ut in "lace a market-7ased system, the ?missions $radin/ Scheme, that it "resently "lans to mo#e to in three years time. $he onlysensi7le inter"retation of their decision to "ush ahead with the initial fi%ed "rice from (uly of this year is that the some H> 7illion it e%"ects to raise inre#enue from that ta% is fundamental to achie#in/ its "romised 7ud/et sur"lus in 8938532. $hat 7ud/et sur"lus is a "olitical, not an economic,im"erati#e. Further su7stanti#e de7ate a7out the detail of the ta% and its im"lementation, re#ealin/ the sort of a7surdity that I ha#e identified in relationto landfill emissions, would certainly easily cloud the introduction of the ta%, and "erha"s carry o#er to the inte/rity of the 7ud/et as well.


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Doesn#t solve warmin& Australia provesSloan #$$- onorary Professorial Fellow at the 1el7ourne Institute of A""lied ?conomic and Social &esearch at the *ni#ersity of 1el7ourne'(udith, Car7on scheme fails on three key le#els, $he Australian, (uly @ th, 8933, htt"455www.theaustralian.com.au57usiness5o"inion5car7on-scheme-fails-on-three-key-le#els5story-efr/@if-3889@392:9th,htt"455www.treehu//er.com5climate-chan/e57oreal-deforestation-has-had-net-coolin/-effect.htmlWE=AXus/AFT6C+F"yc/%ak+nd8Dm#%-TPWfe#%/@>."dfuet #,- 1aritime Institute, *ni#ersity of Ghent, =el/ium 'An, )"olicy challen/es to sto" 7iodi#ersity loss,0 ". 38@,www.#liB.7e5imisdocs5"u7lications583>@>."dfth,htt"455dsc.disco#ery.com5news589959>59>5sunshade-warmin/.html 7illion for disaster relief as"art of a 7ill to kee" the /o#ernment runnin/ throu/h mid-+o#em7er . $he sur"rise 829-3@: defeat came at thehands of Eemocrats and tea "arty &e"u7licans. Eemocrats were o""osed 7ecause the measure contains H3.:

7illion in cuts to a /o#ernment loan "ro/ramto hel" car com"anies 7uild fuel-efficient #ehicles. For their "art, many GPconser#ati#es felt the underlyin/ 7ill "ermits s"endin/ at too hi/h a rate . $he outcome sends ouse S"eaker (ohn =oehner, &-hio, and his leadershi" team 7ack to the drawin/ 7oard as they seek to make sure the /o#ernment doesnt shut down at the end of ne%t week. It alsoraises the "ossi7ility that the /o#ernments main disaster relief "ro/ram could run out of money early ne%t

week for #ictims of urricane Irene and other disasters. $he Federal ?mer/ency 1ana/ement A/ency has onlya few days worth of aid remainin/ in its disaster relief fund, lawmakers said Wednesday. $he a/ency has already heldu" thousands of lon/er-term re7uildin/ "ro6ects -- re"airs to sewer systems, "arks, roads and 7rid/es, for e%am"le -- to conser#e money to "ro#ideemer/ency relief to #ictims of recent disasters. $he loomin/ shorta/e has 7een a""arent for months, and the 7ama White ouse was slow to reDuestadditional money. $he underlyin/ sto"/a" fundin/ measure would finance the /o#ernment throu/h +o#. 3 to /i#e lawmakers more time to try to reacha/reement on the 38 unfinished s"endin/ 7ills needed to run /o#ernment a/encies on a day-to-day 7asis for the 8938 7ud/et year.


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Solvency Deficit )atural Disasters

Americorps is mismana&ed means no solvency?orte #$$R writer for *SA today 'Gre/ory, &e"ort finds fraud a "attern in AmeriCor"s, usa today, Fe7ruary th, /ale9,999. M$hats com"lete 7ull - - - -. I refuse to res"ond or ha#e anythin/ to do with AmeriCor"s any more,M said the former director, $homasGlennon, who chairs the "ro/ram in leadershi" and ser#ice at 1acons 1ercer *ni#ersity. [In the most hi/h-"rofile case, Sacramento 1ayor Ke#in(ohnson settled with the (ustice Ee"artment in 899@ after alle/ations that a non-"rofit he ran, St. o"e Academy, used AmeriCor"s mem7ers aschauffeurs, "ersonal assistants and "olitical o"erati#es. $he *.S. attorney declined to "rosecute 7ut si/ned a settlement allowin/ (ohnson and the city of

Sacramento to kee" recei#in/ federal contracts. (ohnson denied wron/doin/ as "art of the settlement 7ut admitted St. o"e Mdid not adeDuatelydocumentM some s"endin/. $he "re#ious ins"ector /eneral, Gerald Wol"in, "rotested the settlement to the 7oard that runs AmeriCor"s. $he ne%t day,

President 7ama fired Wol"in, tellin/ Con/ress he had lost confidence in him. Wol"in is a""ealin/. $he (ohnson case Mis merely ane%am"leM of a much lar/er "ro7lem , Wol"in said. MIts sad that such a #alua7le and contri7utin/ "ro/ram can 7emisused so easily, and it can 7e.M e said "olicin/ #olunteer fraud takes unannounced #isits to ensure mem7ersare doin/ ser#ice work. $he lack of criminal char/es is Ma serious "ro7lem, M he said.


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Lin"s to Politics

Conservative opposition to americorpsClemmitt #$%- a #eteran social-"olicy re"orter who "re#iously ser#ed as editor in chief of 1edicine X ealth and staff writer for $he ScientistUli7eral arts and sciences de/ree from St. (ohns Colle/e, Anna"olis, and a masters de/ree in ?n/lish from Geor/etown *ni#ersity '1arcia, ) Loutholunteerism4 Should schools reDuire students to "erform "u7lic ser#iceQ0 CT researcher, (anuary 8>th, #ol. 88 issue , articles"lus>-year-old Wal"in had 7een )confused, disoriented0 and )una7leto answer Duestions0 at a Cor"oration for +ational and Community Ser#ice 7oard meetin/, raisin/ dou7ts a7out )his ca"acity to ser#e.0 Wal"in ar/uedthat he was fired 7ecause hed stated that an 7ama su""orter, Ke#in (ohnson, now mayor of Sacramento, Calif., had misused AmeriCor"s /rants at his

non"rofit community-de#elo"ment a/ency, St. P?. )While firin/ an in#esti/ator who unco#ered the a7use of funds 7y a"olitical ally mi/ht 7e considered an act of "olitical coura/e in Chica/o "olitics, for most Americans it raisestrou7lin/ Duestions,0 said&e". Earrell Issa, &-Calif., chairman of the ouse Committee on #ersi/ht andGo#ernment &eform. 'In +o#em7er 899@, howe#er, a &e"u7lican inDuiry failed to find e#idence that Wal"ins dismissal was "oliticallymoti#ated. In (anuary 8933, a federal a""eals court ruled a/ainst Wal"in in a lawsuit he filed claimin/ wron/ful firin/.< Also in 899@, 7ama si/neda 7ill "assed 7y the Eemocratic-led Con/ress to tri"le AmeriCor"s siBe in ei/ht years. =ut AmeriCor"s remainscontro#ersial, es"ecially amon/ staunch conser#ati#es. As AmeriCor"s e%"ands, )there is a #ery stron/ chancethat we will see that youn/ "eo"le will 7e "ut into mandatory ser#ice,0 said &e". 1ichele =achmann, &-1inn., whocam"ai/ned unsuccessfully for the &e"u7lican "residential nomination. )$here are "ro#isions for what I would call re-education cam"s V where youn/"eo"le ha#e to /o and /et trained in a "hiloso"hy that the /o#ernment "uts forward,0 she said.


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Solvency Deficit 5conomy

Cuba#s economy won#t elp te 'S!or"land #3R writer for the Washin/ton $imes '?lena 1aBa, ) Stick with Cu7an em7ar/o,0 Washin/ton $imes, A"ril 29 th,"roDuest3::9:>>23899@>233.html

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