[John Kerry]: Introducing the American [Climate Hoax] Act: on the strategy and substance | Grist

I don't want to swing by and just sort of preach to the choir. We're true believers -- we already get the imperative of the threat our addiction to carbon-emitting energy poses. You know the science, you know the reality, and so do I.
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Now, we can't leave American workers exposed, waiting for others to join us in the effort to price pollution forever because that would force them to compete against countries that have no greenhouse gas emissions limits. That would just shift pollution abroad rather than reduce it and in the process, it would cost us jobs. So we've included a robust, WTO-consistent border adjustment mechanism into the bill.  [But if this swindle is so great for our economy, why would we need new border taxes in order to remain competitive with the rest of the world?]
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We also want Americans to share in the benefits of this legislation, so the American Power Act -- inspired in part by the great work of Senators Cantwell and Collins -- sends the bulk of the proceeds from the sale of the pollution allowances back to the American people directly in the form of rebates. None of it stays with or grows government.  [Wait, what?!  How would we administer all the new programs and regulate the emitters and audit the carbon offsetters and handle the rebates and defend against all of the inevitable lawsuits and do new product monitoring at the border and hire government consultants and pay new federal magical-energy bean inventors etc etc etc without spending any new money or growing government?]
...if we do this, I know we can get a tough international agreement to deal with this global problem.