Cap & Trade Act-Largest Tax Increase-AND you cannot sell your home...

[TruthWillSetUFree]

Date: November 20, 2009 1:41:44 PM CST
Subject: Bill HR2454 ~ has just past the House - going to Senate - Requires a license for your house ! - Urgent must read !

TONY COSTABILE
Senior Mortgage Consultant
American Fidelity Mortgage Services Inc.
email]tcostabile@ilmortgageteam.com[/email]
www.MortgagesByTony.net


"An Illinois Residential Mortgage Licensee...
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Good morning all, please take the time to carefully read this….see if you find it as scary as I did!

Bill HR2454


Cap and Trade: A License Required for your Home

I encourage you to read the provisions of the Cap and Trade Bill that has passed the House of Representatives and being considered by the Senate! I don not understand what this Congress and their "creative" staffs are thinking, I don't want to get political, but are they truly out to destroy the middle class of the USA?


A License Required for your house:

Look carefully at H.R. 2454 (Cap and Trade bill) Unbelievable! Take note then tell your clients, your friends and relatives who are home owners!

Beginning 1 year after enactment of the Cap and Trade Act, you won't be able to sell your home unless you retrofit it to comply with the energy and water efficiency standards of this Act (H.R. 2454), the "Cap & Trade" bill passed by the House of Representatives. If also passed by the Senate, this will be the largest tax increase any of us has ever experienced.

The Congressional Budget Office (supposedly non-partisan) estimates that in just a few years the average cost to every family of four will be $6,800 per year. No one is excluded. However, once the lower classes feel the pinch in their wallets, you can be sure these voters get a tax refund (even if they pay no taxes at all) to offset this new cost.

Thus, Mr. and Mrs.. Middle Class America will have to pay even more since additional tax dollars will be needed to bail out everyone else.

But wait… This awful bill (I can't believe anyone in Congress has actually read it) as it has many more surprises. Probably the worst one is this:
A year from now you won't be able to sell your house. Yes, you read that right. The caveat is that if you have enough money to make required major upgrades to your home, then you can sell it. But, if not, then forget it. Even pre-fabricated homes (mobile homes) are included. In effect, this bill prevents you from selling your home without the permission of the EPA administrator.

To get this permission, you will have to have the energy efficiency of your home measured. The government will tell you what your new energy efficiency requirement is and you will be forced to make modifications to your home under the retrofit provisions of this Act to comply with the new energy and water efficiency requirements. You will have to get your home measured again and get a license (called a "label" in the Act) that must be posted on your property to show what your efficiency rating is; sort of like the Energy Star efficiency rating label on your refrigerator or air conditioner.

If you don't get a high enough rating, you can't sell. And, the EPA administrator is authorized to raise the standards every year, even above the automatic energy efficiency increases built into the Act. The EPA administrator, appointed by the President, will run the Cap & Trade program (AKA the "American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009") and is authorized to make any future changes to the regulations and standards he alone determines to be in the government's best interest. Initial requirements are set low so the bill will pass Congress; then the Administrator can set much tougher new standards every year. The Act itself contains annual required increases in energy efficiency for private and commercial residences and buildings. However, the EPA administrator can set higher standards at any time.

Sect. 202:
Building Retrofit Program mandates a national retrofit program to increase the energy efficiency of all existing homes across America. Beginning 1 year after enactment of the Act, you won't be able to sell your home unless you retrofit it to comply with the energy and water efficiency standards of this Act.

You better sell soon, because the standards will be raised each year and will be really ex$pen$ive to meet in a few years. The Act allows the government to give you a grant of several thousand dollars to comply with the retrofit program requirements if you meet certain energy efficiency levels. But, wait, the State can set additional requirements on who qualifies to receive the grants.

You should expect requirements such as "can't have an income of more than $50K per year", "home selling price can't be more than $125K", or anything else to target the upper middle class (YOU) and prevent them from qualifying for the grants. Most of us won't get a dime and will have to pay the entire cost of the retrofit out of our own pockets. More transfer of wealth, more "change you can believe in."

Sect. 204:
Building Energy Performance Labeling Program establishes a labeling program that for each individual residence will identify the achieved energy efficiency performance for "at least 90 percent of the residential market within 5 years after the date of the enactment of this Act."

This means that within 5 years 90% of all residential homes in the U.S. must be measured and labeled. The EPA administrator will get $50M each year to enforce the labeling program. The Secretary of the Department of Energy will get an additional $20M each year to help enforce the labeling program. Some of this money will, of course, be spent on coming up with tougher standards each year.

The label will be like a license for your car. You will be required to post the label in a conspicuous location in your home and will not be allowed to sell your home without having this label.
And, just like your car license, you will probably be required to get a new label every so often - maybe every year. But, the government estimates the cost of measuring the energy efficiency of your home should only cost about $200 each time. Remember what they said about the auto smog inspections when they first started: that in California it would only cost $15. That was when the program started. Now the cost is about $50 for the inspection and certificate; a 333% increase. Expect the same from the home labeling program.

Sect. 304:
Greater Energy Efficiency in Building Codes establishes new energy efficiency guidelines for the National Building Code and mandates at 304(d), Application of National Code to State and Local Jurisdictions, that 1 year after enactment of this Act, all state and local jurisdictions must adopt the National Building Code energy efficiency provisions or must obtain a certification from the federal government that their state and/or local codes have been brought into full compliance with the National Building Code energy efficiency standards.

Again, I encourage you to forward this to every homeowner you know…

Your trusted Mortgage advisor,
Tony

TONY COSTABILE, CRMS
Certified Residential Mortgage Specialist

For additional information, you can also go to:

a license required for your home - Google Search
H.R. 2454: American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (GovTrack.us)

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-2454

[Ross H]

I can't say Im surprised...

'they' sit around the board table as a 'think tank' how can we piliage the middle class, who most will be baby boomers, who have a lot of wealth collectively, add this to the 2 page list of taxes we already pay.

we are gonna bend you over again and we wont be using lube...

[Northern Boy]

watch the number of mysterious fires that pop up and people will just let the insurance companies pay for the upgrades

[mntruthseeker]

OH LOL NB


I had just written out that there would be so many that would effect their insurance buddies and then erased it

[TruthWillSetUFree]

Originally Posted by jross

I can't say Im surprised...

'they' sit around the board table as a 'think tank' how can we piliage the middle class, who most will be baby boomers, who have a lot of wealth collectively, add this to the 2 page list of taxes we already pay.

we are gonna bend you over again and we wont be using lube...

Ya that's about the size of it! No pun intended...lol!

I wonder how long it will take until people realize just how many of these 'bogus' bills were put into place before they revolt. Most people don't even know what's in the Patriot Act let alone bills that have been passed without their knowledge, usually in the middle of the night and without any media attention.

"Buckle your seat belts; It's going to be a bumpy night"
one of my favs.. Bette Davis-All About Eve

[artvision]

In Romania, there is a law that you are not let to sell your house, land if you have an unpaid ticked or fine to the city.

People and some lawyers says this law is constitutional, but anyway is in action by now.

What will stop these people, say that if your house is not thermal rehabilitated (according their always raising standards) or not earthquake rehabilitated, or whatever they want to corral citizen property rights.

Can you people imagine, that Romanian Parliament is preparing a law, now, stating that if someone is killing cockroaches or rats, or other similar pests and vermin, by methods that has not been scientifically approved by state, they will be put 5 years in prison?

Here is the romanian MSM article (could use Google Translate):
http://www.capital.ro/articol/proiec...or-128206.html

These fat, arogant, bastards, in order to take measures to counteract we have close to 1 million jobless people from 4 million working force and raising, we have so many problems and issues, look what these persons are wasting citizen's money to produce! It is mind boggeling and we are to expected for more.

I just remember that we received instructions from EU legislators, that we need to ban in public, work and formal appellate of madam, misses and miss as being considered offensive and could be labeled as sexual harassment!?

http://antiue.wordpress.com/2009/03/...ntul-european/

People, can you imagine that? I'm expecting to lots of bad, bad things, now after the EU president election; they are in full swing!

[Seashore]

My understanding from listening to Alan Watt and Alex Jones is that the stuff Congress does is really just mirroring stuff coming out of the UN. And the eventual goal of stuff like Agenda 21 of the UN is to have no private property and no private transportation.

[artvision]

Originally Posted by Seashore

My understanding from listening to Alan Watt and Alex Jones is that the stuff Congress does is really just mirroring stuff coming out of the UN. And the eventual goal of stuff like Agenda 21 of the UN is to have no private property and no private transportation.

Yes, Seashore, all these demoniac laws, as well the communism (which by the way, didn't start with the Soviet Revolution of 1917, but more than 100 years before, as a social experiment called "Communist Reductions in Paraguay"), all these concoctions came from an entity which is really running the world, way over all the visible world bodies and organizations. They are pushing their agenda, slowly but steadily, one step after the other, constructing brick by brick, a tyranny fence around the humanity, based on the principle of "boiling the frog": slowly boiling the water , not just throwing the frog into already boiling water, because will jump out from it.


So, yes, if you are watching all that laws and measure, stripping them off their "good-for-you" clothes, any intelligent person will reach to the same conclusion, that steadily pace, we are loosing all of our rights and freedoms.

Someone could ask, but as you say, why these entities didn't take the complete power before, maybe hundredths of years ago, when most of people were serfes or slaves already? I give a long thought about that and my conclusion was, that YES,INDEED the majority of humanity they were serfs and slaves, but also they were a few free man and also some monarchs and nobles, which by no means would accept to subdue their freedom and liberties and their wealth to these forces. So, this cabal, must pass trough all that stages, capitalism, socialism and communism to get rid of these free spirits and to enslave the world more thoroughly. And hell, they almost did it. If you look to majority people in westerners countries, they are just like zombies, they have remain no pride, no smarts, everybody became an army of yesmen, politically correct, even you tell them sombody will come and take his baby, will say whatever. This whatever is killing me, people. So back to our discussion, what is world now, more than a bunch of sheeple, under the technological and chemical control of strong hand of a few elites, elites of right orientation right now (not that with freedom ideas as before).

But, also according my humble opinion, the elites made a big mistake. Right now they applied one the protocols of the Elders, that of withholding the flow of money in order to kill the economy, but I think they did it too strong and too noticeable, even for the sheeple. As they by no means the Elites are not stupid, this means they expose themselves too much with this maneuver. They wouldn't do that, knowing their strict policy of stealth and working through proxies, only if this is the last movement towards fulfilling their dream. This is the only viable explanation. And if this is the final blow, the planetary coup d'etat, we must to fight like there is no tomorrow (because so, really there is no tomorrow for us and for our offsprings)

Yes, by no doubt, they would not revealed their wheelings and dealings so into open, if they were not sure, that they will prevail. And also, according my humble opinion, this also was one of their final mistakes, endangering whatever they've been worked for hundredths of years, all of them. They managed to wake up the sleeping giant!

Some will say, that this they want. Based on using the army and the hidden black underground army of soulless cyborgs. Whatever army they have underground, by some voices, not more than 300,000 units, with possibility one unit of killing 10 people, this will equate 3 mill people. In case these units are able to kill 100 people before they get themselves destroyed, that's meaning 30 mill. Even for 1000 people per unit, this meaning 300 mill. Still a few billions to fight back. And people, after I lived through a bloody revolution, seeing brains and blood around me, I can tell you that people seeing this after a while, will fight like crazy, will not even think they are mortals: it is not counting anymore, is just the thought that you must destroy them regardless the cost; there is no fear anymore. And do not ever forget, that the human that lost everything, is the most dangerous enemy. Put in that equation, the help for the human race may get from above and you maybe will see the outcome.

The only valid method for TPTB to keep people under control is just to dumb them down, by no means to stir them up, with joblessness, hunger and disease. This is why imperious necessarily for the elite to cull the humanity down, using these bio weapons. By the way, seems that they will refrain to use the nuclear weapons on large scale.

[artvision]

Yes, it is confirmed. We have also in Romania a Cap & Trade kind a law, maybe not with such visible drawbacks for the people, such in States (up to now!) but at least, starting from 2010, people cannot sell their houses, apartments without a license from government, for which they didn't indicate the methodology or the way to obtain, nor the bureaucracy to appeal to for getting it. BUT THEY GAVE A LAW THAT STARTING FROM 2010, YOU CANNOT SELL YOUR HOUSE WITHOUT THIS LICENSE!

Of course, this legislative stupidity can happen only in Romania, there is no other place in the world that can happen: they brought a law for which they do not know how to implement, so now is needed a ministerial order to delay the application of said law, until they will setup the way of issuing such licenses.

MSN news:
http://www.capital.ro/articol/vanzar...ut-128315.html

And they wondering why romanians are emigrating to get out from there...

PS: What is the more obvious than that, that these laws are not the respective governments concoctions, but they are told so, by the greater entity?

And what I see from the lack of comments for this subject, people don't even get, what will hit them, when all these laws will interleaved all together. THERE IS NO ESCAPE! Should I mention that us, in communism we get a little the taste of where people could be driven to, with such crazy laws, rules.

[Seashore]

Originally Posted by artvision

Yes, it is confirmed. We have also in Romania a Cap & Trade kind a law...

I suspect the same thing is going on all over Europe.

Alan Watt is very good at showing how this works. I think he has actually read Agenda 21. And he understands how the powers that be operate.