Our daddies always said, “Never trust a politician who looks like Bill Nye, the Science Guy.” Here’s why:
Oregon Democrat Earl Blumenauer has introduced a bill with the heartwarming and hard-to-oppose title of the “Water Protection and Reinvestment Act.”
It will be “financed broadly by small fees on such things as bottled beverages, products disposed of in wastewater, corporate profits, and the pharmaceutical industry.”
“Fees on what,” you may ask.
“Damn near everything,” we would respond.
A 3% excise tax will be slapped on anything that can be disposed of in wastewater. That includes things like toothpaste, cosmetics and toilet paper. A 4% excise tax will be added to water beverages.
Blumenauer’s logic is that “…these products wind up in the water stream and require clean up by sewage treatment plants.”
There’s no end to the Democrat creativity in Washington, DC these days.
Future headline prediction: Obama appoints Blumenauer Toilet Paper Czar.
Source: Congressman Earl Blumenauer
