http://www.carbontax.org/blogarchives/2008/04/24/near-unanimity-for-tax-at-tv-roundtable-on-carbon-pricing/ Pricing carbon efficiently and equitably Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:05:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 http://www.carbontax.org/blogarchives/2008/04/24/near-unanimity-for-tax-at-tv-roundtable-on-carbon-pricing/#comment-23011 Carbon Tax Center » Boxer the Trapper (of Global Warming Deniers) Sat, 07 Jun 2008 19:49:18 +0000 http://www.carbontax.org/blogarchives/2008/04/24/near-unanimity-for-tax-at-tv-roundtable-on-carbon-pricing/#comment-23011 [...] from left to right agree that the gold standard for effective climate policy is a revenue-neutral carbon tax with dividend. [...] […] from left to right agree that the gold standard for effective climate policy is a revenue-neutral carbon tax with dividend. […]

]]> http://www.carbontax.org/blogarchives/2008/04/24/near-unanimity-for-tax-at-tv-roundtable-on-carbon-pricing/#comment-21610 Al Weed Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:30:05 +0000 http://www.carbontax.org/blogarchives/2008/04/24/near-unanimity-for-tax-at-tv-roundtable-on-carbon-pricing/#comment-21610 Good comments from James.  In today's tax avoidance environment (even Obama recently used "tax relief" -- the conservatives' framing) maybe we are hurting ourselves by using carbon "tax".  I have been using "carbon fees", but have recently started to call them "carbon <em>tipping</em> fees".Who can object to users paying for the "waste" they create?  Who can argue that all of us should not be responsible enough to share the cost of dealing with this waste?  Just as ordinary landfill tipping fees encourage recycling and and reuse as a way to reduce solid waste, so would carbon tipping fees lead us to a much lower carbon world. I fear that cap-and-trade, based on the limited sulfur dioxide model, will lead us into a dead end that will put off for too many years a more forthright solution to the issue.  Al Weed Good comments from James.  In today’s tax avoidance environment (even Obama recently used "tax relief" — the conservatives’ framing) maybe we are hurting ourselves by using carbon "tax".  I have been using "carbon fees", but have recently started to call them "carbon tipping fees".Who can object to users paying for the "waste" they create?  Who can argue that all of us should not be responsible enough to share the cost of dealing with this waste?  Just as ordinary landfill tipping fees encourage recycling and and reuse as a way to reduce solid waste, so would carbon tipping fees lead us to a much lower carbon world. I fear that cap-and-trade, based on the limited sulfur dioxide model, will lead us into a dead end that will put off for too many years a more forthright solution to the issue.  Al Weed

]]> http://www.carbontax.org/blogarchives/2008/04/24/near-unanimity-for-tax-at-tv-roundtable-on-carbon-pricing/#comment-21460 David Collins Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:00:20 +0000 http://www.carbontax.org/blogarchives/2008/04/24/near-unanimity-for-tax-at-tv-roundtable-on-carbon-pricing/#comment-21460 Congratulations to Clean Skies TV and CTC! Discussions like this are the kind of action needed. "Carbon tax" is held to be a non-starter, and we cannot expect a serious Presidential candidate to espouse the issue: "We the People" type folks must work at changing the perception. Consider the distortions in the flak thrown at Obama for who he served on committees with. Or McCain's recommending a summer vacation for gasoline taxes. Getting a Senator or Representative on board might be possible but is unlikely. Could anybody be featured on Oprah? Congratulations to Clean Skies TV and CTC! Discussions like this are the kind of action needed. "Carbon tax" is held to be a non-starter, and we cannot expect a serious Presidential candidate to espouse the issue: "We the People" type folks must work at changing the perception. Consider the distortions in the flak thrown at Obama for who he served on committees with. Or McCain’s recommending a summer vacation for gasoline taxes. Getting a Senator or Representative on board might be possible but is unlikely. Could anybody be featured on Oprah?

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