Issue Position: National Energy Tax

Issue Position

During the worst recession in decades, liberals in Washington sought to hit American families with another job-killing tax on everyday activities like buying groceries and driving the kids to school. The "Cap & Trade" national energy tax would amount to one of the largest taxes in American history, would cause electricity prices to skyrocket and would very likely bankrupt an enormous portion of our domestic energy industry. The legislation also threatens to wipe out up to 80,000 jobs in Ohio alone. Shockingly, not only did Congresswoman Sutton support the bill, she was a "key House architect" behind the legislation.

In 2008, while campaigning for president, Barack Obama admitted that "Under my plan of a cap & trade system, electricity costs would necessarily skyrocket". When discussing the effect that Cap & Trade will have on the coal industry, which employs thousands of Ohioans, he stated that "it will bankrupt them".

Unlike my opponent, I forcefully oppose any legislation that will saddle Americans with a new energy tax or that threatens to kill America's domestic energy industry. No legislator from the state of Ohio who supported Cap & Trade should ever be sent back to Washington.

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