Bill Putney > wrote in part:

>And when companies and their owners start holding on to every penny even
>harder than they are now in response to health insurance premiums
>escalating and coverage decreasing at every contract renewal, how
>stagnant do you think the economy will become? And what will happen
>when the returns in taxes aren't there because the economy has stagnated
>as a direct result of the tax that was supposed to have the opposite effect?

Uh...the tax should be offset by a decrease in other taxes, of
course. The point is to use the tax to reduce a severe dependence
on a foreign resource and the related environmental damage.
--
Jim Chinnis Warrenton, Virginia, USA