Carbon Tax Revenue and the Budget Deficit: A Win-Win-Win Solution?

Bush-era tax cuts are scheduled to expire at the end of 2012, leading to interest in raising revenue through a carbon tax. This revenue could be used to either cut other taxes or to avoid cuts in Federal programs. There is a body of economic research suggesting that such an arrangement could be a wi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rausch, Sebastian, Reilly, John
Format: Technical Report
Language:en_US
Published: MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72548