Real World Pigovians
Several readers have emailed me examples of the Pigou Club making headway in the real world (as opposed to the fantasy world of academia and op-ed pages):
- Boulder, Colorado, has just passed a carbon tax.
- Elizabeth May of Canada's Green Party has been advocating a carbon tax. I am told, "Unlike the party south of the border, the Canadian Greens are very fiscally conservative (May was an advisor to former Conservative PM BrianMulroney)."
- Christine Gregoire, governor of Washington state, signed into law an increase in the gas tax in 2005.
A meager start, but a start nonetheless.
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