Sentences with phrase «neutral carbon tax»

To your earlier question, I would also add that increasingly, conservatives are starting to understand that a revenue - neutral carbon tax is the way to go.

Chong: The most economically efficient way to reduce emissions, the cheapest way to reduce emissions and the most conservative way to reduce emissions is through a revenue - neutral carbon tax.

In the second study, researchers from RFF and Stanford University use a general equilibrium model of the US economy with a high degree of corporate and personal income tax detail to consider the impacts of several revenue - neutral carbon tax policies, including lump - sum recycling to households, recycling via cuts in individual labor and capital income tax rates, recycling via cuts in corporate tax rates, and more.

I have nothing much against the use of «grey literature» (or — I might as well come clean all at once — the precautionary principle, a revenue - neutral carbon tax and opposition to consumerism and overpopulation) but it's got to be solid «grey literature» — Agoumi wasn't — and you've got it to paraphrase it accurately — the IPCC didn't and still hasn't.

65 percent of Americans support a revenue - neutral carbon tax that would «help create jobs and decrease pollution,» including majorities of registered Republicans (51 %), Independents (69 %), and Democrats (77 %).

49 percent of Americans support a revenue - neutral carbon tax if the revenue was instead returned to each American family equally as an annual check.

This just goes to show that we need to do something to make renewables grow faster (internalizing the damages caused by fossil fuels with a revenue - neutral carbon tax would certainly help level the playing field — as long as it doesn't cost anything to pollute, fossil fuels will reign).

Shultz concluded that robust funding of clean energy research and development, plus a revenue - neutral carbon tax, «starting small and escalating to a significant level on a legislated schedule» would «do the trick» and are the kinds of policies Reagan would advocate to avert climate disaster.

British Columbia has enacted and annually increased its revenue - neutral carbon tax with popular support by dedicating all revenue to reducing a variety of other taxes ranging from sales taxes to business taxes.

In a January 2016 piece in the Daily Caller advocating a revenue - neutral carbon tax, he wrote:

I'm sorry to say that the notion of a bipartisan federal carbon tax is barely on life - support, as we wrote here last week, decrying the passivity of the Climate Solutions Caucus — the Noah's Ark - like conclave that we formerly touted as a possible incubator for a revenue - neutral carbon tax.

The New York Times ran a fascinating article last week about the Citizens Climate Lobby, which has been doing the painstakingly hard work to build bipartisan consensus for a revenue neutral carbon tax.

Also, CNBC reports on a new survey from Yale & George Mason Universities finding that two - thirds of all Americans, and nearly half of Republicans, would support a revenue - neutral carbon tax.

Yoram is a PhD environmental economist — and «stand - up economist «-- who co-authored (with Alan Durning of Sightline Institute) the 1998 book Tax Shift that helped inspire the revenue - neutral carbon tax in British Columbia.

Well, that happens to be the one that introduced a revenue neutral carbon tax on sound conservative principles over two years ago.

Notably, S. 1747 aimed to create a revenue neutral carbon tax, where, «All revenue would be returned to households, businesses and institutions.»

Finally, I'll note that we have long — and publicly — supported a revenue - neutral carbon tax as the most effective, transparent, and efficient way for governments to send a signal to consumers and the economy to reduce the use of carbon - based fuels.

Just days before the election of Donald Trump as president, ExxonMobil reiterated its claim to support a revenue neutral carbon tax as the «best option» for achieving its preferred policy approach to addressing climate change.

British Columbia is one of the few places to have instituted a revenue - neutral carbon tax, using the revenue to reduce income and corporate taxes.

A lobbyist disclosed opposing a 2016 revenue neutral carbon tax bill in Massachusetts on behalf of ExxonMobil.

You know the one, it's famous for its revenue - neutral carbon tax.

Using the money to cut other taxes — as British Columbia's revenue - neutral carbon tax does — can reduce the tax burden on workers and employers.

A revenue - neutral carbon tax can create low - carbon incentives while revenue can be used to reduce payroll taxes.

Revenue nearly - neutral carbon tax, with 95 % of revenue returned as a flat rebate on your taxes (or your EITC).

Join Citizens Climate Lobby, the vital and committed nationwide network of activists that is putting the revenue - neutral carbon tax known as «fee - and - dividend» (delightfully explained in CCL's 2 - minute video) on the policy map.

Opinion polls increasingly find Americans grasping the need to address climate change and warming (oops) to a revenue - neutral carbon tax.

There are several options for pricing carbon emissions, but the alternative with the most support among political conservatives is a revenue - neutral carbon tax.

This is showing what happens to the economy if a $ 30 / ton revenue - neutral carbon tax is used to fund lump - sum dividend payments back to all citizens.

Others in Congress support new legislation setting a price on carbon (with most recent attention focused on a revenue - neutral carbon tax).

Campbell: The way that the revenue - neutral carbon tax worked was positive for us.

A revenue neutral carbon tax is either is either insufficient to cause substitution — thus pointless — or sufficient to cause a transition to carbon free energy thus leading to higher energy costs, lower productivity, greater economic marginalization and a collapse in revenue — thus no compensation.

It means that even if we completely ignored the fact that lower emissions will reduce future climate change damage, it would still make society richer by implementing a 100 % revenue - neutral carbon tax swap.

B.C. has the kind of revenue - neutral carbon tax I'm talking about.

And, this past summer, the California State Senate passed a resolution for a revenue - neutral carbon tax that would refund revenues to the low - and middle - income Americans.

Please point us to a detailed and viable plan for a revenue neutral carbon tax.

The November 8 election also saw the defeat of an initiative in Washington State that would have imposed the nation's first revenue - neutral carbon tax, assessing a $ 25 - per - ton fee on carbon dioxide emitted in the electricity, transportation, and other sectors and then using that revenue to reduce the state sales tax.

The revenue - neutral carbon tax could be a workable policy framework for countries around the world — and be the policy most likely to preserve the ability of every sector of society to seek new efficiencies and technologies.

Our analysis shows that a revenue - neutral carbon tax would be the most effective approach.

For example, the list of conservatives supporting a revenue - neutral carbon tax continues to grow:

For these reasons, as governments enact policies to address the risks of climate change, we believe that market - based efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions — like a revenue - neutral carbon tax — are more economically efficient policy options than regulations, mandates, or standards.

ExxonMobil has for many years held the view that a revenue - neutral carbon tax is the best option to fulfill these key principles.

Climate solutions are also growing in popularity due to their real - world success, with British Columbia's revenue - neutral carbon tax enjoying 64 percent support, and California's carbon cap and trade system experiencing 67 percent support.

There is no such either as a revenue neutral carbon tax.

He reiterates his idea of a revenue neutral carbon tax starting at a moderate rate but linked to temperature rises.

The following statement captures the key principles that we have been advocating for a number of years, including an explanation for why we believe a revenue - neutral carbon tax is the best option to fulfill these key principles.

Our carbon dividend strategy has four interrelated elements that account for its strength: a gradually rising and revenue - neutral carbon tax; carbon dividend payments made equally to all Americans, to be funded using all the carbon - tax revenue; rollback of costly command - and - control regulations that were implemented because the environmental costs of carbon fuels have not been incorporated into their price; and border adjustment to ensure a level playing field and U.S. competitiveness.

On November 8, Washington will vote on the nation's first revenue - neutral carbon tax.

So, I want to do that, but I am rather firm in my position that a revenue - neutral carbon tax is the most efficacious and politically feasible way to reduce emissions.

SEATTLE, October 10, 2016 — More than fifty climate scientists from the University of Washington signed an open letter advocating their support for Initiative 732 (www.carbonwa.org), a revenue neutral carbon tax swap that will be on the ballot in Washington State this November.

I - 732 is a revenue - neutral carbon tax — the first of its kind in the U.S..