Tagged with Taxes 
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When will we stop paying the hidden fossil fuel tax? 1
Posted 1 week, 1 day ago Last week, the nation suffered from major sticker shock when we learned that our use of fossil fuels comes with a hidden price tag of $120 billion per year. -
... is it a good idea to tax workers and businesses more, penalizing hard work, or is it better to essentially tax waste and thereby encourage conservation?
Paterson’s Bold Carbon Gamble 0
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Merkel and Sarkozy want carbon tax on imports 1
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
The leaders of Germany and France called Friday for the United Nations to support a carbon tax on imports from countries who fail to back international efforts to fight global warming.
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CBS’s Declan McCullagh promotes another false CEI attack on clean energy reform 1
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks agoAccording to Declan McCullagh, a libertarian blogger who works for CBS Interactive, secret Obama administration documents reveal that the cost of clean energy cap-and-trade legislation would be $1,761 per household -- despite official estimates from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Congressional Budget Office, and the Energy Information Administration of about a postage stamp a day.
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Bubble Trouble
The soda wars heat up—and the possibilities are thrilling 9
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks agoFeel free to believe a soda tax won't solve obesity. But don't deny that its revenue will create all sorts of opportunities.
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Green jobs: debunking the debunkers 5
Posted 3 months, 4 weeks ago
In response to my recent article digging into green jobs, a reader sent me a copy of a March paper by Andrew Morriss et al at University of Illinois that attempts to debunk green jobs myths. While I see major flaws in most green jobs papers I read, many of the myths cited by this paper are irrelevant to what I consider the most important questions.
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Obama's cap-and-trade plan
If sticks don’t work, try carrots 0
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks agoFor an $80 billion program, President Barack Obama's cap-and-trade proposal is very short on specifics. His budget plan [PDF] provides only the briefest policy rationale for cap-and-trade, describing it as "a policy approach that dramatically reduced acid rain at much lower costs than the traditional government regulations and mandates of the past."
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A love of delicious
Posted 8 months agofarm votesbeef crosses ideological boundaries 0 -
A mileage tax may be the best idea that everyone loves to hate 0
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Berkeley’s program to finance solar systems through property tax assessments is off to great start 5
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Sales tax shortfall could affect Seattle’s public transit 0
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What gas taxes don’t do 5
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Conservative touts gas tax as cure to all ills, alternative to other climate/energy policies 6
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Before we debate gas taxes vs. mileage taxes, Oregonians must pay for roads with those taxes 5
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American Enterprise Institute endorses tax credits for super-efficient, furnace-free homes 5
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They affect consumers the same either way, and upstream is simpler and more transparent 27
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American taxpayers help pay for coal sent to China 7
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WaPo editorial reflects lazy resort to gas tax as answer to carbon troubles 11
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Higher gasoline taxes to boost efficiency would be ‘a mistake’ 8
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Dear media, 0
Posted 11 months, 1 week ago