{"id":879,"date":"2009-04-01T12:31:25","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T19:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/truthsquad\/2009\/04\/01\/pants-on-fire-nrcc-gets-it-all-wrong\/"},"modified":"2009-04-01T12:31:25","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T19:31:25","slug":"pants-on-fire-nrcc-gets-it-all-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2009\/04\/01\/pants-on-fire-nrcc-gets-it-all-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Pants on Fire — NRCC Gets it All Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

Claim<\/h3>\n

“MIT researchers released an ‘Assessment of U.S. Cap-and-Trade Proposals,’ which shows that the increase would be an increase of more than $3,000 a year for each household.<\/p>\n

— From press release issued by the National Republican Congressional Committee targeting new and politically vulnerable House Democrats, March 31, 2009.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Truth<\/h3>\n

PolitiFact, a nonpartisan watchdog group whose full response is available here<\/a>, calls this a “Pants on Fire” lie.<\/p>\n

According to PolitiFact, the NRCC used an MIT report analyzing a similar cap-and-trade bill last year. The MIT report said the bill, under certain assumptions, could raise $366 billion per year. The NRCC divided this by 117 million households in the U.S. to get to $3,128.<\/p>\n

But, according to John Reilly, an MIT economist and one of the authors of the report, the interpretation that what is raised under a cap policy can be equated to cost per household is “just wrong. It’s wrong in so many ways it’s hard to begin…”<\/p>\n

And, courtesy of Think Progress, here is a letter [pdf]<\/a> Reilly just sent to House Republican Minority Leader John Boehner urging the NRCC to stop misrepresenting the MIT report.<\/p>\n

Read the full PolitiFact post<\/a> for more on how NRCC got this all wrong.<\/p>\n

Pants on fire indeed!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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