He has said he likes Ms. Snowe's trigger proposal — "a pretty doggone good idea," he called it in a recent conference call with Nevada voters.
Instead, the trigger proposal is a plan to kill the public health insurance option outright.
A trigger proposal asks America to wait for the health insurance crisis to get worse before fixing it.
The price is looking more and more like this incredibly bad trigger proposal she has been pushing, a trigger that quite literally is written to automatically never trigger a public option.
The AFL-CIO, Howard Dean and Democracy for America, bloggers, MoveOn.org, progressive media figures, and the tens of thousands of people coming to Obama rallies and cheering wildly for a public option will figure out quickly that this trigger proposal is a farce specifically written to kill any chance of a public option.
The subsequent Trigger Finger proposal that offered triggers but retained the weapons in Alexandria also met with defeat.
Tradeoffs among equity, environmental effectiveness and cost-efficiency indicate the proposals trigger similar aggregate emissions reductions but lead to different outcomes in efficiency and alternative measures of equity.
The publication of the commission's proposals triggers a 12-week public consultation period which will include three public hearings.
"Current law doesn't trigger this tax proposal for another four years," said Scott Talbott, chief lobbyist for the Financial Services Roundtable, an industry group for some of the largest financial firms.
Last year, in Wisconsin — home to some of the nastiest big-money judicial races — the State Supreme Court rejected proposals to trigger recusal at $1,000 or $10,000 contribution levels.
The Indian government officially cleared the idea a year later, triggering a variety of proposals for the space.
