Carbon taxes gain conservative followers
Conservative climate activists say the city’s government-imposed solution is wrong and that the market-based forces of a carbon tax are more efficient in reducing greenhouse emissions. “The solution that D.C. has landed on seems to be more in keeping with a planning-oriented ideology than a revenue-neutral carbon tax would be,” says Eli Lehrer, president of the R Street Institute, a think tank that advocates limited government.
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