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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsConservative group ALEC pushes stealth tax on homeowners who install solar panels
Conservative group ALEC pushes stealth tax on homeowners who install solar panels
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/04/conservative-group-alec-pushes-stealth-tax-on-homeowners-who-install-solar-panels/
An alliance of corporations and conservative activists is mobilising to penalise homeowners who install their own solar panels casting them as freeriders in a sweeping new offensive against renewable energy, the Guardian has learned.
Over the coming year, the American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec) will promote legislation with goals ranging from penalising individual homeowners and weakening state clean energy regulations, to blocking the Environmental Protection Agency, which is Barack Obamas main channel for climate action.
Details of Alecs strategy to block clean energy development at every stage from the individual rooftop to the White House are revealed as the group gathers for its policy summit in Washington this week.
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Conservative group ALEC pushes stealth tax on homeowners who install solar panels (Original Post)
abelenkpe
Dec 2013
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Blue Owl
(50,374 posts)1. ALEC = Grid Nazis
n/t
DirkGently
(12,151 posts)2. These guys cannot be exposed enough.
ALEC might as well call itself the Legion of Doom, such is its cartoonish evil. More excuses to shoot people dead; punishments for renewable energy, loyalty oaths from lawmakers that they put "the organization" above all else?
ACORN went down in flames based on a nonsensical, misleading video tape that merely suggested they didn't all call the cops fast enough on a lying kid claiming to be a panderer, but these guys march on, literally scheming to hurt people at every opportunity?
ck4829
(35,076 posts)3. Oh look, a Captain Planet villain in real life
G_j
(40,367 posts)4. yes and fuel efficient cars
must be taxed also..