To use your slavery metaphor, Cap & Trade would be like passing a bill that made it still OK to have slavery, but now the slave owners now have to pay a tax to rich northerners who then provide no goods or services – they merely dip their hands into the slave owners pockets, and they use government force to do so.

In that scenario, both parties would be wrong. Slavery is wrong and using the government to steal is wrong.

Heavy polluting may be wrong, but stealing from the heavy polluters is also wrong.

And you should consider China. If we kill those industries here, manufacturing and others will merely move overseas, where they (the industry) will have less regulation than they did here. China has already said that they will not comply with cap & trade type standards. So by passing the bill here, we may actually have a worse net effect on the environment – and as a bonus we will injure our own economy and have increased poverty here.

That does not sound like a good idea to me.

Besides, why should any elected official pass any bill they have not read? The bill is over 1,000 pages long, and all the details have still not been worked out.

Cap & Trade is not about climate change, many of its authors have already admitted that it will have little or no impact on the environment – it’s about government control.