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Barbara Boxer: “Some of my colleagues call it a tax. All of them do, on the other side. They never called it a tax when it was in the…”

On the recordOctober 26, 2009
Some of my colleagues call it a tax. All of them do, on the other side. They never called it a tax when it was in the Clean Air Act's acid rain program.
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Barbara Boxer
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Senator Boxer critiques opponents for labeling the trading program as a tax, contrasting it with past legislation.

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