Subject: [big campaign] McCain Adviser Steve Forbes: Cap-And-Trade Wouldn't 'Get Very Far' Under McCain
From: "Adam Jentleson (CAPAF)" <[email-masked]>
To: "big campaign" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:02:26 -0400
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McCain Adviser Steve Forbes: Cap-And-Trade Wouldn't 'Get Very Far' Under
McCain
<http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/07/28/forbes-no-cap-and-trade/> 

Speaking with CNN's Glenn Beck on Friday, former GOP presidential
candidate and current McCain economic adviser Steve Forbes disparaged
Sen. McCain's signature plan
<http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/05/12/mccain-climate-speech/>
to put mandatory reductions on greenhouse gases with a cap-and-trade
system. McCain has repeatedly
<http://blog.oregonlive.com/mapesonpolitics/2008/05/mccain_launches_ad_i
n_oregon_o.html>  pointed to his record on promoting global warming
legislation as a key distinction
<http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/05/mccain-surrogat.html>  between
himself and the current president.

	I think cap and trade is going to go the way of some other
things, as you may remember, when he came into office, Bill Clinton had
a proposal of tax carbons and stuff like that. I don't think those
things are going to get very far as people start to examine the details
of them.

Watch it:

On July 9, conservative journalist Larry Kudlow reported that he was
told "on deep background" by a "senior McCain official" that McCain was
off cap-and-trade
<http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NzRkNzVlYWMzNjY2OTExNDRkNmI1Ym
UxYjFjZGJmZjM=> . The campaign publicly responded that "any notion that
the senator is abandoning or minimizing his support for cap-and-trade is
'totally false
<http://kudlowsmoneypolitics.blogspot.com/2008/07/cap-and-trade-minimizi
ng.html> .'"Forbes is signaling that Kudlow may be right, and McCain
will follow in the footsteps of George W. Bush. As a candidate in 2000,
Bush pledged <http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/07/co2-pledge/>  to
impose mandatory reductions of carbon dioxide, but immediately reversed
that position once elected. Newly elected Vice President Dick Cheney
said of Bush's pledge, "It was a mistake
<http://archives.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/05/08/cheney.cnn/index.html>
."

Contrary to right-wing talking points, a cap-and-trade system is not in
fact a tax (or even a "stealth tax"). Critically, cap-and-trade provides
"emissions certainty <http://www.climatepolicy.org/?p=48> " - ensuring
that pollution does not exceed
<http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/market-movers/2008/06/05/why-cap-a
nd-trade-beats-a-carbon-tax>  a certain level, whereas a carbon tax
would place no such limits. At WorldChanging, Alan Durning explains how
the most flexible regulatory system for managing global warming
pollution would be using both policy instruments: cap-and-trade and a
carbon tax <http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008055.html> . With
the stark need to arrest global climate change
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jul/25/carbonemissions.clima
techange>  as fast as possible, we will need all the tools in the chest.

Transcript: 

	BECK: Then explain this to me, Steve, because I know you're a
John McCain guy and I'm not a John McCain guy. I mean, I don't have any
guy in the running right now.

	FORBES: Why aren't you running?

	BECK: I would vaporize too many cities. Here's the thing, John
McCain may be good on income tax, and he says that he gets that and I've
seen his plan, and it's good. But in the same plan, he talks about cap
and trade. Gigantic tax programs, the biggest ever created. So you're
taking, sure, I'm not giving income tax, but I'm getting it here and
here.

	FORBES: Yes. I think cap and trade is going to go the way of
some other things, as you may remember, when he came into office, Bill
Clinton had a proposal of tax carbons and stuff like that. I don't think
those things are going to get very far as people start to examine the
details of them.

	BECK: But shouldn't he have examined those details, Steve?
Shouldn't he have known that's a bad idea?

	FORBES: Yes, well, he's moving in the right direction. You got
to give him credit. He's now for really having active exploration
offshore. Going full bore on nuclear power plants, 45 in the next 20 to
25 years and that's another thing that the Democrats are squirming
about. People know we should do more offshore production and drilling
and they wish that issue would go away and we're not going to let it go
away.

http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/07/28/forbes-no-cap-and-trade/

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