“To Bauman and his colleagues at CarbonWA, the initiative seemed like a win-win, something that would drive down carbon emissions while moving Washington’s notoriously regressive tax code — the worst in the entire country, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy — forward.”
October 11, 2016
Think Progress: Opposition to Washington’s historic carbon tax initiative is coming from the unlikeliest of sources
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