Washington Post editors call for a carbon tax
August 13th, 2007 by Brendan SteinhauserDespite recognizing the costs of imposing a punitive carbon tax on energy production, the liberal editorial board at The Washington Post supports such a policy.
Here is an excerpt from today’s editorial,
“Whatever his motives, Mr. Dingell has positioned the climate-change conversation on Capitol Hill where it needs to be. A price per ton of carbon emitted must be imposed in the United States if America is to help slow the advance of global warming.”
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“Under any plan adopted by Washington, mitigating the inevitable pain that will be felt by low-income Americans must be a priority.”
As I mentioned in a previous post, the Congressional Budget Office reports that raising the price of carbon-based energy will disproportionately hurt the poor. The same liberals who demagogue the high gas prices are the ones that block domestic energy production and support new taxes on oil and gas. The American people need to keep this in mind the next time a liberal politician blames others for high energy prices.
