Replace state property tax with carbon tax for climate action
One sign of progress comes from right next door. Voters in British Columbia recently re-elected Premier Gordon Campbell, the driving force behind BC's carbon tax. By 2012, the tax will reach about $30 per ton of carbon dioxide, or about 30 cents per gallon of gasoline. Money from the tax is used to reduce other taxes in a "revenue-neutral tax shift," and voters showed their support by backing Campbell and his right-of-center party for a rare third ... Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
Reducing the regressive sales tax in order to impose a carbon tax would be more socially responsible. A carbon tax is much simpler and harder to evade than the dicey cap and trade solution being hyped at the federal level.