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Taxing The Sun. A Rigged Game

1290580?profile=originalSolar energy is still in it's infancy as an alternative energy fuel but let the consumers find a way to save a few bucks?  No way says Oklahoma state legislature.  A bill to allow a TAX surcharge for anyone using the sun in addition to their current utility, passed the Senate last month and now heads to Gov. Mary Fallin for her approval.  This "tax" however, isn't going to the state or federal coffers.  Noooo.  It's going to the existing utility company to "offset existing infrastructure costs"

Wait.  What?  Sounds like I'll be propping up their stock price instead.

Seriously?  Tax the Sun?!  Heaven forbid the big oil barons (Koch brothers) don't find a way to deter it's usage.  Just because Oklahomans were too asleep at the wheel busy to look the other way while their legislators sold them out, don't think for one moment that other states won't follow. 

Whatever happened to supply and demand?  Whatever happened to free markets?  Because a company does not adapt to new technology, s

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