Dobbs pushes phony claim that "crap-and-trade" would cost "almost $1800 a year" per household

And what would you trade it for, anyway?

What numbers

It is a phony claim because the note from the Treasury Department describes a cap-and-trade bill that has very little to do with the actually proposed bill. The note assumes that all of the CO2 quotas would be auctioned out when in fact 80% of them are given away for free. The note describes the revenue from such an auction; not the tax burden put upon the tax payers. The proposed bill actually has provisions included that would ease the burden on households (payed for by auctioning out the remaining 20%). Any news outlet failing to look into such obvious details must be characterized as phony! I worry that Dobbs actually did know the facts, but his agenda was better served by not revealing the whole truth.

>>Phony claim? The numbers come straight from the Treasury Department.

See http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200909170044