Monday, April 27, 2009

'Cap and Tax' to Hurt Americans

“The provisions they are proposing would change our economy and would have detrimental effects to American industry,”

“What we have learned from our research and findings — not our own but those of other outside agencies and groups such as the MIT study — is that this would cost American families $3,128 per year in basically what is a national energy tax.

“The National Association of Manufacturers estimates that it would cost three to four million American jobs. And then they estimate what they think the jobs growth would be. They only think that this legislation would create two million green jobs. So we are looking at a large jobs loss in this country if they pass that bill.”

“We are very concerned about that private right of action [next piece] being included in that bill,” ... it would be “bankrupting to the federal government.”

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