Save the Rust Belt!
meganmcardle.theatlantic.com 11/13/2008 — A few heartfelt pleas from native Michiganders who don't want to see their state destroyed.  Several emails and comments complaining that I'm a heartless, effete New York type who doesn't understand that if the Big Three go down, some darn fine ...

Cap and Trade vs. Carbon Tax
WWW.samefacts.com 5/7/2009 — The Waxman-Markey Climate Bill sets up a so-called "cap and trade" framework to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The canonical alternative approach is commonly though incorrectly, called a carbon tax. Joseph Romm tees up James Hansen, a ...

Saving The Rust Belt
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 11/14/2008 — Felix Salmon makes a list of reasons to bailout GM, while Henry Blodget still wants bankruptcy: We stress that, in recommending the bankruptcy option, we are not suggesting that the government abandon GM's workers: We'd rather the government spend ...

Employee Free Choice Act and the Rust Belt
corner.nationalreview.com 1/9/2009 — EFCA does not amend Section 14 (b) of the National Labor Relations Act that permits states to have right-to-work laws. Although EFCA will make it much easier to organize in every state in the Union, card check may have a more profound impact on states ...

Cap and Trade a â
cnsnews.com 5/1/2009 — (CNSNews.com) - The congressional Democrats cap-and-trade plan to tax carbon emissions could cost every American family as much as $3,100 a year and is equivalent to a declaration of war on the Midwest, Republican lawmakers told CNSNews.com this week. ...

DETROIT NEWS: Cap-and-trade plan will sink Michigan. “President Barack Obama’s proposed cap-and-t…
pajamasmedia.com 3/5/2009 — DETROIT NEWS: Cap-and-trade plan will sink Michigan. “President Barack Obama’s proposed cap-and-trade system on greenhouse gas emissions is a giant economic dagger aimed at the nation’s heartland — particularly Michigan. It ...

The coming cap-and-trade tax
hotair.com 3/2/2009 — Barack Obama insists that his new tax increases will not affect 95% of Americans, who will not pay even a dime more. He may be right about that, at least directly, but Obama has another plan that will hit every single American with a massive cost ...

Carbon Financing
motherjones.com 2/27/2009 — The Washington Post reports on Barack Obama's plan for the revenue from his climate change plan: As for cap-and-trade, the official said the administration believes it will generate enough money to fund a variety of priorities, including investments ...

Taxing Carbon - Part 5
motherjones.com 5/12/2009 — I promise this is the last post in this series. (For a while, anyway.) But there's one general point about the debate between carbon taxes and cap-and-trade that I want to make directly. Namely this: it's an unfair fight. Here's the thing. ...

How likely is that cap and trade revenue?
meganmcardle.theatlantic.com 3/1/2009 — Kevin Drum crunches a few numbers on Obama's projected revenues from carbon permits and says he thinks they're about right: That sounds like roughly $100 billion per year.  Is that reasonable?  The United States produces about 7 billion ...