I hear a chorus. Is something up? Some sort of conspiracy or liberal-conservative-economist-environmentalist coalition?
Or just an effort to put a good idea in front of Barack Obama?
Dec. 26, New York Times lead editorial: A call for a revenue neutral gas tax
Dec. 27, New York Times Op-Ed: Republicans Bob Inglis and (economist) Arthur Laffer call for a revenue neutral carbon tax, writing, "We need to impose a tax on the thing we want less of (carbon dioxide) and reduce taxes on the things we want more of (income and jobs)."
Dec. 27th Thomas Friedman calls on Obama to implement a gas tax: A gasoline tax “is not just win-win; it’s win, win, win, win, win,” says the Johns Hopkins author and foreign policy specialist Michael Mandelbaum. “A gasoline tax would do more for American prosperity and strength than any other measure Obama could propose.”
Dec. 29, 2008: NASA's James Hansen calls on Obama to implement a revenue neutral carbon tax at Guardian.co.uk
Jan 1, 2009: Financial Times of London uses its first issue of the new year to call on Obama to implement a revenue-neutral carbon tax.
Jan 1, 2009: Whoa, so does the Boston Globe in its New Year's wishes.
Jan 5, 2009: neo-conservative journal, The Weekly Standard cover story by Charles Krauthammer calling for a revenue-neutral gas tax.
Monday, January 5, 2009
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Stephane Dion is rolling over in his political grave right now...
We need to continue to play this up a lot around here. Good post. Perhaps the slack-jawed Canadian "media-wannabees" will pick up on this... Then again, maybe they just want to report on the waterskiing squirrel, or last night's hockey game...
The media will evade reporting on carbon taxes, because to do so would cause any reader to question why they so thoroughly botched this issue during the last election. And the media will have no credible explanation as they have lost the capacity for self-analysis.
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