A GAS TAX PLAN I CAN SUPPORT
If you live in New Hampshire, you need to vote for this guy, not just because of his position on energy but also because of his willingness to do the politically unpopular but environmentally necessary thing. Note that part of the gas tax would get rebated back to working families; my approach would be to give rebates to all wage earners (i.e. the gas tax partially substitutes for the income tax) but to redistribute in a way that working families get more, proportionate to their income. As profiled on Greg Mankiw's blog.
If you live in New Hampshire, you need to vote for this guy, not just because of his position on energy but also because of his willingness to do the politically unpopular but environmentally necessary thing. Note that part of the gas tax would get rebated back to working families; my approach would be to give rebates to all wage earners (i.e. the gas tax partially substitutes for the income tax) but to redistribute in a way that working families get more, proportionate to their income. As profiled on Greg Mankiw's blog.
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