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Cry Wolf Quotes
It's disappointing and discouraging. The tone and tenor was often venomous, trying to pit the haves against the have-nots…[the business community now must figure out] how to participate in a system that's largely disconnected from us.
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Pat McCormick, spokesman for Oregonians Against Job-Killing Taxes, The Oregonian.
No state or nation has enhanced economic opportunities [from cap-and-trade and] Europe's cap-and-trade system has been undermined by political favoritism and accounting tricks.
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From the preamble to a piece of failed New Hampshire legislation that would have removed the state from RGGI.
That's just an excuse to create a money-making cap-and-trade scheme that'll drive up electric rates.
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Narrator from one of Americans for Prosperity’s anti-RGGI ads.
'Cap & Trade' stands to cost New Jersey thousands of jobs, millions in lost wealth and vastly higher gas and electric bills. This alone is reason enough to kill RGGI.
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Americans for Prosperity.
