Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Nancy Folbre: Our Carbon, Our Climate, Our Cash - NYTimes.com

Bernie Sanders is still my favorite Senator. Here Nancy is blogging about a carbon tax proposal:
Nancy Folbre: Our Carbon, Our Climate, Our Cash - NYTimes.com: A new Climate Protection Act introduced by Senators Bernard Sanders, the independent from Vermont, and Barbara Boxer, Democrat of California, proposes such a tax. About 60 percent of the revenues would be returned directly to consumers, 25 percent allotted to deficit reduction and 15 percent devoted to investments in renewable energy.