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Cry Wolf Quotes
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.
[Social Security is] the end of democracy.
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The American Liberty League pamphlet. 1935.
Forcing business, industry, and food producers to reduce carbon emissions through government mandates and cap-and-trade policies under consideration for the regional climate initiative will increase the cost of doing business, push companies to do business with other states or nations, and increase consumer costs for electricity, fuel, and food;
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From the legislative template provided by the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council.
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.
