AIR BOARD’S FLAWED EMISSIONS TAX THREATENS JOBS
Help Stop CARB’s Job-Killer Emissions Tax!
With unemployment at 12% – among the highest in the nation – and the state suffering from a multi-billion dollar budget deficit – the last thing we need is a regulation that will drive energy costs higher and kill even more jobs.
But that’s precisely what the California Air Resources Board is planning to do. As part of the implementation of AB 32, the state’s global warming reduction law, these unelected regulators will on October 20 vote on a “cap-and-trade” rule that will force energy producers and energy-intensive industries such as manufacturers, refineries, and food processors to pay billons for emission allowances they need to stay in business and provide the fuels, products and services essential to our everyday lives.
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Click here to send an electronic letter to CARB Chair Mary Nichols and tell her we need jobs, not another energy tax!
And when energy costs go up, businesses have few options but to consider laying off workers, raising their prices if they can, and often shut down, downsize or leave the state altogether. That means more lost jobs in all sectors of our economy – jobs we cannot afford to lose!
And since California would be the only state with such an aggressive emissions tax program, we’d be losing jobs to other states without doing anything to reduce global warming. In good economic times this would be a questionable policy, but in today’s recession it’s unthinkable!
The CARB “haircut” could cost billions and is opposed by the California Chamber of Commerce, California Taxpayers Association, Western States Petroleum Association, California Manufacturing and Technology Association and many other organizations and employers throughout the state. Please join us to defeat this job-killing tax!
