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Tax those carbon gluttons
TheChronicleHerald.ca
LEMME TELL YOU about a carbon tax you're gonna love. Two such taxes, actually. I tell you, kid, Stephane Dion had the right idea, but the wrong sales pitch. ...

doing as we do, not as we say
Washington Post
The polluting middle class should be forced to pay a kind of carbon tax, she says, just as the industrialized world owes a debt to the developing world for ...

How To Pay For All This [Andrew Stuttaford]
National Review Online (blog)
First, broaden the income-tax base by eliminating exemptions, and if possible cutting rates. Second, introduce a carbon tax, the least distorting way to ...

Atlantic Canada braces for climate change
Telegraph-Journal
Oland said it's unclear if a carbon tax or cap-and-trade system, or both, will eventually be implemented. Regardless, he said Moosehead is trying hard to ...

HST rebate increased for new homes
BCLocalNews
... Ottawa to harmonize the federal and provincial sales tax, with adjustments for BC's carbon tax on fossil fuels and a rebate on heating costs for homes.

'Carbon tax' is sensible, and perhaps inevitable, advocate says
Los Angeles Times
On an individual level, some countries have turned to a "carbon tax" to discourage carbon-heavy activities such as driving cars or taking long flights or ...