Cap and Trade Is Alive and Well - Despite Having Never Passed Congress

Remember Cap and Trade?"  The anti-market allegedly market-based" solution" to man-faked global warming climate change? A central authority (usually a governmental body) sets a limit or cap on the amount of a pollutant that may be emitted. The limit or cap is allocated and/or sold by the central authority to firms in the form of emissions permits which represent the right to emit or discharge a specific volume of the specified pollutant. Permits (and possibly also derivatives of permits) can then be traded on secondary markets. Except: Cap-and-Trade Schemes Are Not Markets Only if (you) want government to raise energy prices make coal uneconomical as an electricity fuel or restrict Americans access to carbon-based energy.… Cap and trade" is a policy so disastrous it couldnt pass a Democrat-majority Congress - with Democrat President Barack Obama eagerly waiting with pen at the ready. (Democrat) Ben Nelson: Cap-and-Trade Will Not Pass This Congress Cap and Trade is Dead (Really Truly Im Not Kidding) Except with this President no terrible idea dies just because the Constitutional process demands it.  (Environmental Protection Agency) EPA: If Congress Doesnt Pass Cap-and-Trade We Will And so they have.  Heres the EPAs Cap and Trade" page. And in government terrible ideas are like kudzu - they rapidly illegally spread everywhere. USDA EPA Partnership Supports Water Quality Trading The U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have announced an expanded partnership to support water quality trading.… Oh look - the government is assaulting our farmers water supply.  Where else have we seen that? The EPA is Turning Water on Farms Into a Weapon Against Farmers The EPA exists to assault the private sector.  And it is teaming up with other government departments to maximize the damage. The USDA is a complete waste of money time and space.  Humans have engaged in agriculture for 10000 years - we did so for 9900 of those years without a government department.  I think weve got this. And of course there is zero Constitutional authority granted to the federal government to have a USDA.  Having no useful purpose the Department of Agriculture works day and night to make private agriculture more difficult and expensive.  Which raises our food prices - and makes our farmers less competitive on the now-global market.  These government-inflicted regulations and costs - by a department that shouldnt exist - foster other government programs that shouldnt exist.  Like the horrendous Farm Bill.  Government makes it nearly impossible for farmers to turn a profit - then subsidizes them. Like Food Stamps.  Government jacks the price of food - then buys tens of millions of people food at the government-inflated prices because they can no longer afford it.  The Obama Administration is assaulting the private sector with every department agency commission and board at its $4-trillion-a-year disposal.  Including unilaterally imposing Cap and Trade" across multiple agencies.  And what has transpired during the Obama Administrations tenure?  14 Million More on Food Stamps Under Obama Food Stamp Growth 75X Greater than Job Creation It would seem there is a correlation there.