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Cap-and-Trade Can Cut Emissions Without Major Economic Hit

@ One of the middle class getting screwed

Well said. A number of years ago, as the green movement in the US was more in it's toddler stage (beyond infancy but not yet mature) it was said that "green" is the newer-easier-to-sell/e... & obfuscate "red".
Greenies are actually "watermelons" = green on the outside but red on the inside. Why would that be said? Ever hear Greenpeace castigating any socialist/communist countries? Nope. Ever hear them talk about China's industrial pollution? Nope. According to the Green mantra, the evil (of all kinds) of the world resides and emanates from the U.S., the most highly developed capitalist country in the world, and not inconsequentaily the one with the overwhelmingly largest middle class.
Marx wrote "the bourgeoisie must be made impossible". Notice he did not say "the poor" or "the aristocrat". It's the middle class that was and is targeted for destruction. Ever wonder why liberal Democrat (was that redundant?) tax plans NEVER favor the actual middle class? My theory is that, at heart, they too believe the middle class, the merchant class, the bourgeoisie are the problem. Enacting punative green regulation (such as Pres Elect Obama suggested to the San Francisco Chroicle earlier this year regarding coal) is one method of eroding the middle class without declaring an open class war. Very stealthy of them, and of him.