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Bachmann Perpetuates Boehner’s Refuted $3000 Light-Switch Tax Myth

By | 04.08.09 | 12:30 pm

Last week, MIT professor John Reilly called out Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) for intentionally misrepresenting Reilly’s cap-and-trade study to claim that President Obama’s emissions reduction scheme would cost American families more than $3,000 a year. “It’s just wrong,” Reilly told the St. Petersburg Times in reference to Boehner’s More…

The ‘$3,000 Light-Switch Tax’ Myth

By | 04.02.09 | 12:22 pm

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) has been pushing the notion that President Obama’s cap-and-trade proposal (which he dubs a “light-switch tax”) will “cost every American family up to $3,100 per year in higher energy More…