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On the recordMarch 4, 2009
What a cap-and-trade tax means is that the federal government is going to purposefully increase energy prices.
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Doc Hastings
Republican · Washington

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Hastings argues that the cap-and-trade tax proposed by Obama will intentionally raise energy prices.

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