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When the Alabama legislature passed a bill this year raising the cap, Governor Fob James vetoed it.
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Meanwhile, Governor Romney once supported a cap-and-trade mechanism to control carbon emissions but as the 2008 presidential race neared, he backed off and favored modest penalties for coal-fired power plants.
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He said he set up a per-capita cap in Missouri in 2002 and in 2001 Tennessee set up a per capita cap under a Democratic governor.
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"Governor Cuomo led the fight to pass the tax cap in order to stop skyrocketing property tax increases on homeowners and businesses, and that's exactly what it's done, " spokesman Richard Azzopardi said.
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He noted that Romney signed on to a cap-and-trade plan when the governor was back in Massachusetts, but has since abandoned it.
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He digs up a quote from when Romney was governor of Massachusetts, and signed on to a regional cap-and-trade plan to reduce carbon emissions.
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He later served as Governor Reagan's budget director, during which time Cap acquired an awesome reputation for going over spending requests, line by line, and then reorganizing the agency.
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By contrast, Mitt Romney had favored a cap-and-trade system while he was governor of Massachusetts but he has since changed his mind and has done everything possible to curry favor with coal constituencies.
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