Barbara Boxer distributed this breakdown [PDF] yesterday detailing how the dolla billz will be spent in her proposed amendment to the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act. There are more than $6.7 trillion in carbon credit allowances and auction revenues that will be distributed over the life of the bill, and this shows where that goes. Feels a bit like Monopoly money, doesn't it?
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How the $5.7 trillion in Boxer’s proposed amendment would be spent 1
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21 May 2008 12:56 PM
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Tasermons Partner Posted 11:24 am
21 May 2008
Global warming is not concerned about the defecit.
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