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| Subject: Left, right agree: For big debt cut, end subsidies that harm environment Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:58 pm | |
| [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]Left, right agree: For big debt cut, end subsidies that harm environment This is amazing! JMHO!! The Left and Right agree on something for a change!@!! Absolutely crazy!! WASHINGTON — Budget-slashers in Washington could get a jump-start toward their goal by eliminating environmentally harmful subsidies, an unusual coalition of conservative and liberal groups advised Wednesday. The coalition agreed in a report that many programs Congress has been protecting for years should be eliminated, including subsidies for coal, oil and gas, the ethanol tax credit, farm subsidies and nuclear and solar loan guarantees. These and other proposals in the groups' "Green Scissors" report would save $380 billion over five years. That's about a quarter of the $1.5 trillion Congress is required to cut over 10 years in the second round of debt reductions it agreed to earlier this month. | |
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