Double Cap and Trade penalty to be forced in Maryland county short of cash

Everyone knows cap and trade is an organized crime bonanza for non-existent global warming. Apparently citizens want more organized crime in their lives:

• "This is the least painful, fastest way to raise millions of dollars for the county," Berliner said, "...

"Montgomery County (Md.) Council members are poised to pass a carbon tax...that would apply only to the county's largest emitter of greenhouse gases.

• ...it comes at the expense of businesses already facing new taxes -- in the name of political correctness.

The bill, sponsored by Councilman Roger Berliner, D-Bethesda, would place a $5 tax on each ton of carbon dioxide for power stations that produce more than 1 million tons in a given year....

• "This is the least painful, fastest way to raise millions of dollars for the county," Berliner said,
  

• pointing to the roughly $15 million county officials expect the measure to raise next year.
  

Montgomery County is facing a nearly $1 billion budget gap....

• Mirant (Corp) already pays a steeper price for carbon dioxide emissions under the
  

Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a multistate

• carbon-trading auction
  

• in which companies pay for higher levels of pollutants."...

from Examiner.com, via Tom Nelson

• "George Soros, the billionaire hedge fund operator, says money managers would find ways to manipulate cap-and-trade markets. “The system
• can be gamed,” Soros, 79, remarked....
  
• 
  
• “That’s why financial types like me like it -- because there are

• financial opportunities.”