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 Stories About: British Columbia AND carbon tax AND carbon trading AND climate AND climate change mitigation
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Oh, Canada!
More on B.C.'s carbon tax shift |
Alan Durning |
13 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| On February 19, one of my colleagues at Sightline applauded British Columbia's new carbon tax shift. I've now had time to digest the plan. It's even better than we said, and the province could tweak it to make it better still. This policy is the purest instance of a tax shift that I've ever seen. It's an exceptionally faithful implementation of tax shifting -- a policy innovation Sightline has been promoting since 1994 and especially since our 1998 book. (A small bra ... |
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| Topics: British Columbia, cap-and-dividend, carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation (all these topics) |
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