Front groups
Cry Wolf Quotes
Main Street non-financial businesses would be hit with taxation, regulation, and possible nationalization by the Federal Reserve.
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Group letter signed by conservative groups including Americans for Tax Reform and Tea Party Express
We are striving to expose the fact that the cap-and-trade scheme is happening right now, that it is a threat to our economic future.
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Steve Lonegan, director of the New Jersey chapter of Americans for Prosperity
That's just an excuse to create a money-making cap-and-trade scheme that'll drive up electric rates.
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Narrator from one of Americans for Prosperity’s anti-RGGI ads.
It's disappointing and discouraging. The tone and tenor was often venomous, trying to pit the haves against the have-nots…[the business community now must figure out] how to participate in a system that's largely disconnected from us.
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Pat McCormick, spokesman for Oregonians Against Job-Killing Taxes, The Oregonian.
