Re: [DEBATE] : (Fwd) Doug Henwood on elite climate change strategy
On Apr 23, 2007, at 5:06 PM, Gar Lipow wrote:
There is a very simple way to make a carbon tax progressive - in effect that is.
I lifted Charlie Komanoff’s idea of rebating part of the tax to
poorer households through the income tax system. But I don’t have a
good idea of how to translate Patrick’s “decommodifying” strategy -
punitive tax for heavy users to fund lifeline services for poor -
into something real.
Doug