Could Carbon Tax Be Clunky, Too
Hat tip to a co-worker of mine for pointing me in the direction of this Wall Street Journal article about France contemplating a carbon tax: "France Moves to Levy Carbon Tax on Fossil Fuels." Ominously, as my colleague points out, carbon tax policy may be as rife as cap-and-trade with horse-trading: loopholes are inevitable as the price of support, leading to inefficiencies that steeply mitigate the theoretical gains to environment and economics. I have posted early and often about a carbon tax's advantage over cap-and-trade being its simplicity, and am no forced, not necessarily to eat my words, but to be as vigilant about a carbon tax policy's details as I have been about cap-and-trade. Let the games begin!
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It's incredible to me that people are shocked, shocked, about the Philadelphia political culture. Government is a club of the powerful at that level of government. The club has rules for admission. If you don't "pay" in actual money, you'll "pay to play" in some way.