"Cap-and-trade" subsidizes "the shower Nazi"?
So let me get this straight:
- I get a job and earn money.
- Instead of spending the money on something that I may want or need, I send the money to someone in Washington.
- After paying the salaries, benefits, overhead and rent for whatever bureaucratic department this is flushed through, the government takes whatever's left of my money and launches an advertising campaign to get me to apply for a shower head subsidy.
- Once I apply for a shower head subsidy, someone else in Washington processes my paperwork (more salaries, benefits, overhead and rent) and mails me my money back in the form of a rebate coupon.
- Finally, I take what's left over of the money I earned in the first place (i.e. the rebate coupon) and buy a shower head.
- The shower head automatically shuts off the water flow when the government thinks my shower is done.
Gee. That makes perfect sense. How about this for an idea instead: I'll just turn off my shower when I'm confident all of the soap is rinsed out of my hair. I'll use the money that I'm not spending on government salaries, benefits, overhead, rent, postage, advertising and paperwork to stimulate the economy.
(h/t Junkscience.com)
