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 Stories About: carbon tax AND climate AND Washington
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Carbon tax shifts?
The only obstacle to more state carbon taxes is politics |
Alan Durning |
28 Apr 2008 |
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| One of Washington State's conservative think tanks has just proposed a carbon tax shift. Interesting. (Read it here.) The Washington Policy Center has garbed its tax shift proposal in anti-government clothing. Some of the rhetoric makes my skin crawl. But the proposal itself is sensible if modest. It includes a starter carbon tax that pays for a small sales tax reduction. As a bonus, it throws in a business and occupations tax reduction on all capital investment. It's ... |
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| Topics: cap-and-dividend, carbon tax, climate, Washington (all these topics) |
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