Carbon Taxes: The Washington state experience – IOTW Report

Carbon Taxes: The Washington state experience

Canada Free Press: OTTAWA, ON: The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) has launched a cross-country tour with Todd Myers, Director for the Center for the Environment at the Washington Policy Center, to share lessons from his state’s experience with carbon taxes.

In November 2016, Washington state voters rejected Washington Initiative 732, which would have made Washington the first U.S. state to impose a direct carbon tax, beginning at $15 per ton and rising to $25 per ton in the second year, together with offsetting reductions in business and sales taxes. The measure was defeated with 59 per cent of voters opposing it.  MORE

4 Comments on Carbon Taxes: The Washington state experience

  1. What part of the word no don’t those chuckleheads in Olympia not understand? Can we please get rid of democrap governors in Wash. State, who knows, maybe next time if they don’t steal it again like they did when Dino Rossi was hosed by the democraps in 2004.

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  2. I think carbon might hurt Washington State, primarily because there are so damn many trees it is already choking out the sunlight. More carbon = more trees, something Washington doesn’t need.
    Is that what we are talking about????

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  3. Coal is almost pure carbon. Carbon is black. Black is bad. Carbon is bad.

    The Soviet State of Washington Department of Ecology admits that coal smoke has hundreds of pollutants and carcinogens while wood smoke has about ten times as many. So, somehow, it makes perfect sense to them that we can still burn wood (for now), but you can’t buy a pound of coal in this Soviet State. Go figure.

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