1SENATE HOUSE BILL NUMBER

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4Introduced by: Andrew Stukalin
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7YMCA:

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10 Massachusetts YMCA Youth & Government

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13 In the Year Two Thousand and Eleven

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16AN ACT TO ELIMINATE ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SUBSIDIES
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20Be it enacted by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts YMCA Youth Legislature as follows:
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23Section I
24Subsidies are a form of financial assistance paid to a business or economic sector.
25Alternative energy: energy derived from sources that do not use up natural resources or
26harm the environment. Market: the world of commercial activity where goods and
27services are bought and sold
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29Section II
30Alternative Energy is in many cases, such as wind energy, cannot hold up in the
31economic marketplace. Based on the cost and benefits it costs more to make then it
32benefits. In other words it doesn’t gain but looses profit as produced. Alternative Energy
33should by no means be eliminated. Through private research by people and companies
34it can expand and become something in which the benefits out weigh the costs (as
35shown by nuclear energy). However it should strive and survive through the means of a
36competitive marketplace and not by government taxation. If investing in alternative
37energy makes economic sense, investors will make those investments of their own free
38will because that’s how profits are secured in a free market economy. If investing in
39alternative energy does not make economic sense, investors will rightly eschew those
40investments. If the government encourages or compels investments in things that don’t
41make economic sense, nobody wins save for the particular parties gaining the subsidy.
42In the end by allowing these subsidies you allow the parties involved in them to take
43advantage of the government. Overall these subsidies are a no win for the people of
44Massachusetts as they waste millions upon millions on a no win initiative.
45Section III
 1This bill will enact the termination of all government subsidies of alternative energy
2including wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric, natural gas, and hydrogen. As the types
3of alternative energies change over time as new forms are discovered the bill must be
4adapted based on the times every eight years beginning in the year two thousand and
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7Section IV
8No Funding Necessary
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10Section V
11This law is one which ones ensued cannot be broken by the representatives of this fine
12state. If so it will breach the states and federal constitution as ones a bill is enacted it is
13law. However, if necessary, it can be modified in the year 2020 if need be so.
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15Section VI
16The bill will be enacted January 3, 2010