<![CDATA[Carbon Tax? We Don't Need No Carbon Tax, We Already Have One.]]>

1.0 link 112304 <![CDATA[Carbon Tax? We Don't Need No Carbon Tax, We Already Have One.]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lloyd-alter/carbon-tax-we-dont-need-n_b_112304.html Lots of greens like the idea of a carbon tax, as a way of making users of fossil fuels pay the real cost of externalities like pollution and carbon dioxide emissions. When Al Gore proposed them in his book Earth in the Balance, " Republicans attacked him as a "dangerous fanatic". In 2000, when Gore ran for President, one commentator labeled Gore's carbon tax proposal a "central planning solution" harking back to "the New Deal politics of his father."

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