WHAT THEY DID: An earlier version of the Senate plan would increase deficits by roughly $ 1 trillion over 10 years, even when taking into
account additional economic growth forecast with the tax cuts, the Joint Committee on Taxation said last week.
The Bush administration had claimed, using the Laffer Curve, that the tax cuts actually paid for themselves by generating enough extra revenue
from additional economic growth to offset the lower taxation rates.
Specifically, Cutting the Cost: The Economic Benefits of Collaborative Climate Action says that ambitious efforts to reduce emissions will: 1) create as many as 10 million new jobs by 2020; 2) Generate
additional economic growth worth as much as recent green stimulus efforts already adopted; 3) enable a 15-fold reduction in the price of carbon (from $ 65 per ton to $ 4 per ton); 4) assist in sustainable development in developing nations if low - carbon technologies are adopted.