If we weren't talking so much about health care right now, you can bet cap-and-trade would be the big story on the front pages of newspapers. While it is nice to say we are winning the debate on Obamacare, we're not quite yet at the point where we can safely say it is dead. The recent preliminary...
If we didn't already have enough fun talking about the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill in the House, we now got the Boxer-Kerry bill in the Senate to poke holes in. While the legislation leaves several things unanswered, there is one thing certain, according to a Heritage Foundation analysis: it...
Yesterday, Paul Krugman attacked The Heritage Foundation and other opponents of cap and trade. Are the opponents of cap-and-trade relying on different studies that reach fundamentally different conclusions? No, not really. It’s true that last spring the Heritage Foundation put out a report claiming...
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Matt Margolis
on 09-26-2009
Filed under: cap and trade, Heritage Foundation, Paul Krugman
Yesterday, CBS's Declan McCullagh reported on documents obtained from the Treasury Department under a FOIA request by the Competitive Enterprise Institute . The documents provide an internal overview and analysis of the cap-and-trade scheme. The first memo contains this disclosure. "In his February...