Indiana Lt. Gov’s call for utility bill tax pause faces key skeptics

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  1. Why not just use the IURC for its intended purpose and actually hold AES and Duke accountable? We don’t need to raid the State’s coffers as our tax revenue declines.

    1. Right! It’s just been a rubber stamp. This is the most embarrassing Republican super majority state in the country! Taxes, taxes, fees, fees, licenses and more licenses!

  2. This only works if the legislature includes in the law a requirement that the tax holiday MUST be passed on to consumers. Otherwise, it’s just a 7% revenue enhancement to the bottom line of the utilities. It’s a detail, I know, but an important one.

    I am always amazed that private, investor-owned utilities are not required to have their investors bear the risks of the corporate business.

  3. I wonder if there is a simpler way of understanding rising energy costs. I’m not an economist, I’m just a common citizen who is perhaps more inquisitive than the average.

    I have never been able to find anyone who can explain to me why energy executive compensation has risen 1,085% since 1978, to about $22.2million in 2023, while the typical worker has seen only a 24% growth during that same period.

    For consumers, electric energy prices during this period have increased 377.77% and DOE funding was $158.28billion.

    I wish I had the time, energy, resources, and people to collaborate with who could dive deeper into government funding of energy companies, the unreal compensation of executives, the occurrence of electric company employees needing government assistance, and how the American consumer continuously loses.

    We pay taxes that seem to get funneled right to energy executives, then we get taxed on buying the electricity we subsidized, and then we have more money go towards supporting energy programs for those who can’t afford it.

  4. I wonder if there is a simpler way of understanding rising energy costs. I’m not an economist, I’m just a common citizen who is perhaps more inquisitive than the average.

    I have never been able to find anyone who can explain to me why energy executive compensation has risen 1,085% since 1978, to about $22.2million in 2023, while the typical worker has seen only a 24% growth during that same period.

    For consumers, electric energy prices during this period have increased 377.77% and DOE funding was $158.28billion.

    I wish I had the time, energy, resources, and people to collaborate with who could dive deeper into government funding of energy companies, the unreal compensation of executives, the occurrence of electric company employees needing government assistance, and how the American consumer continuously loses.

    We pay taxes that seem to get funneled right to energy executives, then we get taxed on buying the electricity we subsidized, and then we have more money go towards supporting energy programs for those who can’t afford it.

  5. I wonder if there is a simpler way of understanding rising energy costs. I’m not an economist, I’m just a common citizen who is perhaps more inquisitive than the average.

    I have never been able to find anyone who can explain to me why energy executive compensation has risen 1,085% since 1978, to about $22.2million in 2023, while the typical worker has seen only a 24% growth during that same period.

    For consumers, electric energy prices during this period have increased 377.77% and DOE funding was $158.28billion.

    I wish I had the time, energy, resources, and people to collaborate with who could dive deeper into government funding of energy companies, the unreal compensation of executives, the occurrence of electric company employees needing government assistance, and how the American consumer continuously loses.

    We pay taxes that seem to get funneled right to energy executives, then we get taxed on buying the electricity we subsidized, and then we have more money go towards supporting energy programs for those who can’t afford it.

  6. I wonder if there is a simpler way of understanding rising energy costs. I’m not an economist, I’m just a common citizen who is perhaps more inquisitive than the average.

    I have never been able to find anyone who can explain to me why energy executive compensation has risen 1,085% since 1978, to about $22.2million in 2023, while the typical worker has seen only a 24% growth during that same period.

    For consumers, electric energy prices during this period have increased 377.77% and DOE funding was $158.28billion.

    I wish I had the time, energy, resources, and people to collaborate with who could dive deeper into government funding of energy companies, the unreal compensation of executives, the occurrence of electric company employees needing government assistance, and how the American consumer continuously loses.

    We pay taxes that seem to get funneled right to energy executives, then we get taxed on buying the electricity we subsidized, and then we have more money go towards supporting energy programs for those who can’t afford it.

  7. I wonder if there is a simpler way of understanding rising energy costs. I’m not an economist, I’m just a common citizen who is perhaps more inquisitive than the average.

    I have never been able to find anyone who can explain to me why energy executive compensation has risen 1,085% since 1978, to about $22.2million in 2023, while the typical worker has seen only a 24% growth during that same period.

    For consumers, electric energy prices during this period have increased 377.77% and DOE funding was $158.28billion.

    I wish I had the time, energy, resources, and people to collaborate with who could dive deeper into government funding of energy companies, the unreal compensation of executives, the occurrence of electric company employees needing government assistance, and how the American consumer continuously loses.

    We pay taxes that seem to get funneled right to energy executives, then we get taxed on buying the electricity we subsidized, and then we have more money go towards supporting energy programs for those who can’t afford it.

  8. I wonder if there is a simpler way of understanding rising energy costs. I’m not an economist, I’m just a common citizen who is perhaps more inquisitive than the average.

    I have never been able to find anyone who can explain to me why energy executive compensation has risen 1,085% since 1978, to about $22.2million in 2023, while the typical worker has seen only a 24% growth during that same period.

    For consumers, electric energy prices during this period have increased 377.77% and DOE funding was $158.28billion.

    I wish I had the time, energy, resources, and people to collaborate with who could dive deeper into government funding of energy companies, the unreal compensation of executives, the occurrence of electric company employees needing government assistance, and how the American consumer continuously loses.

    We pay taxes that seem to get funneled right to energy executives, then we get taxed on buying the electricity we subsidized, and then we have more money go towards supporting energy programs for those who can’t afford it.

  9. I wonder if there is a simpler way of understanding rising energy costs. I’m not an economist, I’m just a common citizen who is perhaps more inquisitive than the average.

    I have never been able to find anyone who can explain to me why energy executive compensation has risen 1,085% since 1978, to about $22.2million in 2023, while the typical worker has seen only a 24% growth during that same period.

    For consumers, electric energy prices during this period have increased 377.77% and DOE funding was $158.28billion.

    I wish I had the time, energy, resources, and people to collaborate with who could dive deeper into government funding of energy companies, the unreal compensation of executives, the occurrence of electric company employees needing government assistance, and how the American consumer continuously loses.

    We pay taxes that seem to get funneled right to energy executives, then we get taxed on buying the electricity we subsidized, and then we have more money go towards supporting energy programs for those who can’t afford it.

  10. I wonder if there is a simpler way of understanding rising energy costs. I’m not an economist, I’m just a common citizen who is perhaps more inquisitive than the average.

    I have never been able to find anyone who can explain to me why energy executive compensation has risen 1,085% since 1978, to about $22.2million in 2023, while the typical worker has seen only a 24% growth during that same period.

    For consumers, electric energy prices during this period have increased 377.77% and DOE funding was $158.28billion.

    I wish I had the time, energy, resources, and people to collaborate with who could dive deeper into government funding of energy companies, the unreal compensation of executives, the occurrence of electric company employees needing government assistance, and how the American consumer continuously loses.

    We pay taxes that seem to get funneled right to energy executives, then we get taxed on buying the electricity we subsidized, and then we have more money go towards supporting energy programs for those who can’t afford it.

  11. I wonder if there is a simpler way of understanding rising energy costs. I’m not an economist, I’m just a common citizen who is perhaps more inquisitive than the average.

    I have never been able to find anyone who can explain to me why energy executive compensation has risen 1,085% since 1978, to about $22.2million in 2023, while the typical worker has seen only a 24% growth during that same period.

    For consumers, electric energy prices during this period have increased 377.77% and DOE funding was $158.28billion.

    I wish I had the time, energy, resources, and people to collaborate with who could dive deeper into government funding of energy companies, the unreal compensation of executives, the occurrence of electric company employees needing government assistance, and how the American consumer continuously loses.

    We pay taxes that seem to get funneled right to energy executives, then we get taxed on buying the electricity we subsidized, and then we have more money go towards supporting energy programs for those who can’t afford it.

  12. I wonder if there is a simpler way of understanding rising energy costs. I’m not an economist, I’m just a common citizen who is perhaps more inquisitive than the average.

    I have never been able to find anyone who can explain to me why energy executive compensation has risen 1,085% since 1978, to about $22.2million in 2023, while the typical worker has seen only a 24% growth during that same period.

    For consumers, electric energy prices during this period have increased 377.77% and DOE funding was $158.28billion.

    I wish I had the time, energy, resources, and people to collaborate with who could dive deeper into government funding of energy companies, the unreal compensation of executives, the occurrence of electric company employees needing government assistance, and how the American consumer continuously loses.

    We pay taxes that seem to get funneled right to energy executives, then we get taxed on buying the electricity we subsidized, and then we have more money go towards supporting energy programs for those who can’t afford it.

  13. I wonder if there is a simpler way of understanding rising energy costs. I’m not an economist, I’m just a common citizen who is perhaps more inquisitive than the average.

    I have never been able to find anyone who can explain to me why energy executive compensation has risen 1,085% since 1978, to about $22.2million in 2023, while the typical worker has seen only a 24% growth during that same period.

    For consumers, electric energy prices during this period have increased 377.77% and DOE funding was $158.28billion.

    I wish I had the time, energy, resources, and people to collaborate with who could dive deeper into government funding of energy companies, the unreal compensation of executives, the occurrence of electric company employees needing government assistance, and how the American consumer continuously loses.

    We pay taxes that seem to get funneled right to energy executives, then we get taxed on buying the electricity we subsidized, and then we have more money go towards supporting energy programs for those who can’t afford it.

  14. I wonder if there is a simpler way of understanding rising energy costs. I’m not an economist, I’m just a common citizen who is perhaps more inquisitive than the average.

    I have never been able to find anyone who can explain to me why energy executive compensation has risen 1,085% since 1978, to about $22.2million in 2023, while the typical worker has seen only a 24% growth during that same period.

    For consumers, electric energy prices during this period have increased 377.77% and DOE funding was $158.28billion.

    I wish I had the time, energy, resources, and people to collaborate with who could dive deeper into government funding of energy companies, the unreal compensation of executives, the occurrence of electric company employees needing government assistance, and how the American consumer continuously loses.

    We pay taxes that seem to get funneled right to energy executives, then we get taxed on buying the electricity we subsidized, and then we have more money go towards supporting energy programs for those who can’t afford it.

  15. I wonder if there is a simpler way of understanding rising energy costs. I’m not an economist, I’m just a common citizen who is perhaps more inquisitive than the average.

    I have never been able to find anyone who can explain to me why energy executive compensation has risen 1,085% since 1978, to about $22.2million in 2023, while the typical worker has seen only a 24% growth during that same period.

    For consumers, electric energy prices during this period have increased 377.77% and DOE funding was $158.28billion.

    I wish I had the time, energy, resources, and people to collaborate with who could dive deeper into government funding of energy companies, the unreal compensation of executives, the occurrence of electric company employees needing government assistance, and how the American consumer continuously loses.

    We pay taxes that seem to get funneled right to energy executives, then we get taxed on buying the electricity we subsidized, and then we have more money go towards supporting energy programs for those who can’t afford it.

  16. I wonder if there is a simpler way of understanding rising energy costs. I’m not an economist, I’m just a common citizen who is perhaps more inquisitive than the average.

    I have never been able to find anyone who can explain to me why energy executive compensation has risen 1,085% since 1978, to about $22.2million in 2023, while the typical worker has seen only a 24% growth during that same period.

    For consumers, electric energy prices during this period have increased 377.77% and DOE funding was $158.28billion.

    I wish I had the time, energy, resources, and people to collaborate with who could dive deeper into government funding of energy companies, the unreal compensation of executives, the occurrence of electric company employees needing government assistance, and how the American consumer continuously loses.

    We pay taxes that seem to get funneled right to energy executives, then we get taxed on buying the electricity we subsidized, and then we have more money go towards supporting energy programs for those who can’t afford it.

  17. I wonder if there is a simpler way of understanding rising energy costs. I’m not an economist, I’m just a common citizen who is perhaps more inquisitive than the average.

    I have never been able to find anyone who can explain to me why energy executive compensation has risen 1,085% since 1978, to about $22.2million in 2023, while the typical worker has seen only a 24% growth during that same period.

    For consumers, electric energy prices during this period have increased 377.77% and DOE funding was $158.28billion.

    I wish I had the time, energy, resources, and people to collaborate with who could dive deeper into government funding of energy companies, the unreal compensation of executives, the occurrence of electric company employees needing government assistance, and how the American consumer continuously loses.

    We pay taxes that seem to get funneled right to energy executives, then we get taxed on buying the electricity we subsidized, and then we have more money go towards supporting energy programs for those who can’t afford it.

  18. I wonder if there is a simpler way of understanding rising energy costs. I’m not an economist, I’m just a common citizen who is perhaps more inquisitive than the average person.

    I have never been able to find anyone who can explain to me why energy executive compensation has risen 1,085% since 1978, to about $22.2million in 2023, while the typical worker has seen only a 24% growth during that same period.

    For consumers, electric energy prices during this period have increased 377.77% and DOE funding was $158.28billion.

    I wish I had the time, energy, resources, and people to collaborate with who could dive deeper into government funding of energy companies, the gross compensation of executives, the occurrence of electric company employees needing government assistance, and how the American consumer continuously loses.

    We pay taxes that seem to get funneled right to energy executives, then we get taxed on buying the electricity we subsidized, and then we have more money go towards supporting energy programs for those who can’t afford it.

  19. I wonder if there is a simpler way of understanding rising energy costs. I’m not an economist, I’m just a common citizen who is perhaps more inquisitive than the average person.

    I have never been able to find anyone who can explain to me why energy executive compensation has risen 1,085% since 1978, to about $22.2million in 2023, while the typical worker has seen only a 24% growth during that same period.

    For consumers, electric energy prices during this period have increased 377.77% and DOE funding was $158.28billion.

    I wish I had the time, energy, resources, and people to collaborate with who could dive deeper into government funding of energy companies, the gross compensation of executives, the occurrence of electric company employees needing government assistance, and how the American consumer continuously loses.

    We pay taxes that seem to get funneled right to energy executives, then we get taxed on buying the electricity we subsidized, and then we have more money go towards supporting energy programs for those who can’t afford it.

  20. I have never been able to find anyone who can explain to me why energy executive compensation has risen 1,085% since 1978, to about $22.2million in 2023, while the typical worker has seen only a 24% growth during that same period.

    For consumers, electric energy prices during this period have increased 377.77% and DOE funding was $158.28billion.

    I wish I had the time, energy, resources, and people to collaborate with who could dive deeper into government funding of energy companies, the gross compensation of executives, the occurrence of electric company employees needing government assistance, and how the American consumer continuously loses.

    We pay taxes that seem to get funneled right to energy executives, then we get taxed on buying the electricity we subsidized, and then we have more money go towards supporting energy programs for those who can’t afford it.

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