Deere quits climate coalition supporting Cap-and-Trade

Bob Tita Dow Jones Newswires via Automated Trader 25 August 2010

CHICAGO -(Dow Jones)- Deere & Co. (DE) has quietly dropped out of a coalition of large companies that has supported a cap-and-trade program for reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

Deere, the world’s largest manufacturer of farm machinery, opted to leave the U.S. Climate Action […]

Why Waxman really canceled his health care ‘show trial’

Jonathan Strong The Daily Caller 4/28/2010

Immediately after President Obama signed his health-care bill into law, several large companies disclosed to investors just how big the tax hit from it would be. AT&T, for instance, said that the law’s tax increases alone would cost the company $1 billion.

Key committee chairman Rep. Henry Waxman, California […]

The ObamaCare tax hike that loses five times what it brings in

David Freddoso Washington Examiner 3/31/2010

We turn to the Wall Street Journal for the math on what it will cost to raise taxes on corporations’ retiree prescription drug coverage. This is the provision that has caused several corporations to take markdowns recently.

The bottom line: by closing this “loophole” — which was originally created to […]

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