Felix Salmon takes note today of an article in the New Yorker advocating replacing the payroll tax with a carbon tax. If you follow this blog that may remind you of a post I had in December that referred to Greg Mankiw’s suggestion that we follow that course. Here is a link to my post which […]
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A Peculiar Path To Green Cars
Posted by Tom Lindmark on January 26th, 2009
President Obama’s decision to support California and other states’ application to set stricter limits on greenhouse gasses from cars and trucks is peculiar from a couple of different points of view. First, the federal government and its denizens are usually pretty protective of their prerogatives. One of those happens to be the right to set standards […]