nytimes.com - 12/29/2008
—
CONSERVATIVES don’t support tax increases that are veiled as “cap and trade” schemes for pollution permits. But offer us a tax swap, and we could become the new administration’s best allies on climate change. A climate-change bill withered in Congress this summer because families don’t need an ...
Comments
Blog Reactions
Is Raising The Fuel Tax To Curb Oil Consumption In Exchange To Tax Relief Elsewhere A Good Idea?
Say Anything —
Charles Krauthammer thinks so, and consummate supply-sider Art Laffer is backing him up. And economist Greg Mankiw has been behind this idea for years.
That’s some serious pedigree behind this idea, but I don’t think it’s something I can get behind. Here are the problems as I see them:
First, it makes me think of the (usually erroneous connotation of) that Ben Franklin quote opponents to Bush’s national security initiatives are always throwing around: “Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” It seems to me that by ...
The Emerging Carbon Tax Compromise
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days —
There is a way to bring about some kind of consensus on environmental policy that transcends partisan divides. It is to implement a smart carbon tax proposal. A carbon tax is preferable to cap-and-trade schemes that will only serve to pass down costs to consumers after a retrofitting is complete or carbon offsets ...
Related Content
Op-Ed Contributor - Transitions - A $1 Trillion Answer
nytimes.com 11/30/2008 — WHAT President-elect Barack Obama will need to do is horribly complicated but also very clear. First, he must stop the economy from going deeper into recession. Then he needs to bring about a robust recovery, preferably in ways that support the ...
Op-Ed Contributors: The I’s Have It
nytimes.com 2/24/2009 — Since his election, President Obama has been roundly criticized for using “I” instead of “me.” Here is a tip, Mr. President. >
Op-Ed Contributor - Transitions - Out of Sight
nytimes.com 12/14/2008 — Prague FEW post-9/11 issues have produced more anxiety and revulsion than the Central Intelligence Agency’s use of “aggressive interrogation” and the extrajudicial rendition of terrorist suspects to countries that practice torture. President-elect ...
Op-Ed Contributors - How to Repair a Broken Financial World
nytimes.com 1/4/2009 — Continued from "The End of the Financial World As We Know It" Mr. Paulson must have had some reason for doing what he did. No doubt he still believes that without all this frantic activity we’d be far worse off than we are now. All we know for sure, ...
Op-Ed Contributors - No More Economic False Choices
nytimes.com 11/3/2008 — AS economists and policy advisers try to sort out where we are, how we got here and where we must go for both the short term and the longer term, we are surrounded by polarizing dichotomies: Fiscal recklessness versus fiscal rectitude; capital versus ...
Op-Ed Contributors - No More Economic False Choices
nytimes.com 11/3/2008 — AS economists and policy advisers try to sort out where we are, how we got here and where we must go for both the short term and the longer term, we are surrounded by polarizing dichotomies: Fiscal recklessness versus fiscal rectitude; capital versus ...
Follow BeltwayBlips on Twitter
