Today McCain lambastes the whole idea as “cap and tax, ” to the dismay of former aides.

如今麦凯恩却将这套主张痛斥为“排放限制和收税制度”，让以前助手们大吃一惊。

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Certainly, any national energy policy that's built on cap and trade or a carbon tax or any other mechanism for fighting global climate change is now dead.

现在，所有以碳排量限制与交易法案或是碳排放税以及其他抗击全球气候变化机制为基础的国家能源政策肯定全都泡了汤。

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A carbon tax or cap and trade system will take years to design, negotiate and implement, it adds.

碳税或总量控制和排放权交易制度的设计、谈判和实施工作要耗费数年时间，报告补充说。

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"So,you pile up all this Democrat spending, all their borrowing,all their debt, you add it to their government takeover of health care, their 'cap and trade' national energy tax and their continued bailouts.

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The pending cap and trade tax legislation and Environmental Protection Agency global warming regulation threaten to cripple the economy with high cost and unproven energy, the specter of which is also is already killing jobs.

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In reality, the only losers will be tax accountants, as it will become clear that most people will either be in position to take the standard deduction or will be able to itemize up to the cap and corporate tax avoidance will be limited as part of the reform package.

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Loaded down with too many give-aways to special interests on the left and the right, it deserved the cap-and-tax label the GOP slapped on it.

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