To the Herald Times editor:
Your May 5 editorial correctly states that Americans still don’t know how much more they will pay for electricity if Congress succeeds in passing a cap-and-trade tax.
This is not because these costs cannot be accurately estimated, but rather, because any objective analysis will show that Americans will see substantial increases in their utility costs. So it is not surprising that cap-and-trade boosters prefer not to discuss such pesky details.
Instead, they run full-page ads that misleadingly predict an abundance of new green jobs.
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Todd Young, an attorney at the southern Indiana law firm of Tucker and Tucker, P.C., was born August 24, 1972, a fifth generation Hoosier and the second of three children of Bruce and Nancy Young. Young lived in Marion County for several years before settling in Hamilton County, where he...