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Published 6/23/2009 by The Huffington Post News Team at Green on HuffingtonPost.com
The Congressional Budget Office has examined the costs -- and rebates -- being engineered into the Congressional climate solution. The result: The average household will pay about $175 a year. The richest among us will pay more, about $245, and the poorest will get rebates enough to make $40 in the bargain.
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