How much will be spent on trees, clean trucks, cow farts?
• The bill’s environmental provisions do add up to $391 billion, or more than half of $739 billion. However, the amount spent on trees, clean trucks and cattle emissions account for a tiny fraction of that, somewhere between half of 1% and 1.4%.
• Calling the $739 billion figure a tax increase is exaggerated. Not counting federal health care savings that are counted as revenue for budgetary purposes, the scale of the tax increase is about $457 billion.
As the most conservative Democrat serving...
• Calling the $739 billion figure a tax increase is exaggerated. Not counting federal health care savings that are counted as revenue for budgetary purposes, the scale of the tax increase is about $457 billion.
As the most conservative Democrat serving...
