Waxman investigates

Posted by David Roberts at 4:34 PM on 20 Dec 2007

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Per his threat yesterday, House Oversight Committee chair Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) has initiated an investigation into the EPA's decision to deny California's waiver.

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Needs a nose hair trimmer

Hope it goes better for him than the 16 month investigation of NOAA and the links between AGW and hurricanes.

Instead of just asking Max Mayfield a direct question, Congressman clueless makes something up.

Keep it up Democrat Party, you'll soon find yourself in the minority again.

by DarthPetrol at 7:14 PM on 20 Dec 2007

The 17 states pay most of the bills

To add insult to injury, the 17 states (CA + NY +...) pay a lot of the bills, and this is what we get.

From: http://www.ppinys.org/nybalpayments.htm, we find that in 2000 (last year I could find):

In $Millions, i.e., the first # is $1.977T
$1,977,113 all states sent to Washington
$1,687,116 all states got back
-$ 289,997 net balance for all states

-$ 202,814 net deficit for those 17 states
$1,006,305 17 states sent to Washington

Thus, the 17 states paid more than half of the taxes, and in fact, paid 2/3 of the money that didn't come back. Hmmm.

-John Mashey

by JohnMashey at 12:53 AM on 21 Dec 2007

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