Dear Representative Judy Clibborn of the 41st Legislative District,
Climate change is real, and it’s happening. As a concerned citizen of Washington and the world, I want to advocate Initiative 732. This is an initiative that would help Washington -- and later the entire nation -- take steps towards cleaning up our environment and creating a safe and livable future for our next generations. Over 360,000 people have already signed in favor for I-732, showing that they agree with creating a carbon tax that would charge polluters $25 for every metric ton of CO2 they emit. However, this tax is revenue neutral--meaning the revenue produced will be returned back to residents through various tax cuts. This would cause a minimal impact on the economy, but still encourage people to transition into
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However, according to the Washington Department of Ecology, the “potential costs to Washington from climate change impacts are projected to reach nearly $10 billion per year by 2020 and $16 billion per year by 2040”. Yes, a carbon tax could potentially put pressure on businesses that heavily rely on fossil fuels, but I-732 also has precautions to these. Not only do they propose introducing the tax, but they also want to lower our sales tax by 1%. This way, it would encourage people to spend money on more sustainable products.
Although there isn’t a lot of cases of countries with carbon taxes yet, one success story comes from Ireland. According to the Carbon Tax Center, Ireland was one of the highest producers of greenhouse gases in Europe, with levels close to that of the United States. However, after implementing the tax that charged about $23 per ton of CO2 in 2010, emissions dropped more than 15%. Yet their economy didn’t fall along with the CO2 levels—it grew instead. I think that Ireland is a great example of the potential carbon taxes can have, and that we should factor in their case when deciding on
I, Deputy Daniel Pruitt spoke to a Steve Craine who stated on 06/06/2017 he saw a small silver SUV on his property. Steve stated the SUV was pulling a red 1970's model truck bed as a trailer. Steve stated he saw a white male drving and a female passenger. Steve stated the subjects were loading items from his property. Steve stated the subjects dropped all the items. Steve stated the subjects went to his neiybors Craig Chaffin's house at 25004 West 49th Street. Craig stated a female named Emma Hogen and a white male named Jerry came to his shop. Craig stated Emma and Jerry were trying to sell items out of a red truck bed. Craig stated Emma and Jerry wanted $300.00 dollars for the whole trailer full of property. Craig stated he paid Emma and Jerry $200.00 dollars and $100.00 was a check he wrote to Emma. Craig stated Emma and Craig left in a silve Geo Tracker SUV. I
The main purpose of the carbon tax is reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which contribute to climate change. It would be unreasonable to ignore this environmental problem, because British Columbia is located in the region which is highly affected by the climate change impacts like flooding and wildfires. Therefore, B.C. government
One major objection many economists have to the question of carbon tax effectiveness is whether the taxes on carbon are high enough to create any change in
It 's bad enough that we are embroiled in the worst recession since the Great Depression and yet, liberals in Washington want to spend more, save less, and yes, tax you some more. It has been said that some things come in three 's-well there you go. Spend more, save less, and tax more. I guess the saying is true to its meaning because Liberals seem to like that number 3, especially with this Cap and Trade bill. The Cap and Trade legislation seeks to create carbon credits-the only credit you and I will get is a VISA debit check card-which places credits in the hands of the polluters and allows them to pollute to a certain limits, based on the limits they were given. But when those companies fall under their mandated pollution limits, they can sell the remaining credits to other companies who haven 't yet. How sweet, huh? They get rewarded and what do we get in return? So what is it with this reward system and this global warming theory that the liberals and environmentalists are running up and down mountains to prove at all cost? Or is it, our cost? Who really is the enemy in all this so-called global warming panic attack? CO2 emissions are the enemy that 's who. The evil demon that needs to be eradicated immediately or we will just vaporize. But wait, CO2--don 't we need that? Is it me or has the long chain of human life that acquired an immense amount of intelligence through evolution just came to an end? CO2 is needed for life. Without it, we would all perish
Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time. These long lasting changes are detrimental to multiple aspects of society (global warming). The Environmental Protection Agency has said the Keystone XL pipeline will impact global warming as well. Senator Sanders has led the opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline. Energy efficient products are available to help combat climate change. Senator Sanders secured $3.2 billion in the economic stimulus package for energy efficient upgrades to buildings. That program resulted in energy efficient upgrades for thousands of buildings and installation of thousands of solar energy systems. Senator Sanders also combats climate change by supporting tax on carbon and methane emissions. Scientists are convinced that methane produced by livestock is a major cause of global warming. Taxing meat would lower the demand for it and therefore reduce the production of global warming gasses from livestock. That is why Senator Sanders supports the carbon and emissions
Carbon Tax has been a solution that the American Government has been thinking. This would add another tax on consumers. This would also limit on how much fossil fuel the country can burn. This would be an excellent solution for America because the state has enough money to buy oil if the price goes up. The carbon tax is unique in a way because not as much fossil fuel would be burning, but it would increase the price of oil and would limit that amounts of jobs that particular country wants to offer.
In 2012 the Australian government announced a price on carbon, in the form of a carbon tax. The tax began at a fixed price of $23 per tonne of CO2. The labour
The reason I chose this issue is because throughout this course, I’ve been very passionate about climate change and I really wanted my last project to take the same focus as well. Additionally, there are many reasonable policies like carbon taxes, which will truly help Canada become more environmentally sustainable. However, many citizens are still not convinced about the urgency of climate change and I’d like to change their minds.
However, the Gillard government has instituted one fairly radical and controversial policy: the new imposed carbon tax which took effect on July 1, 2012. The tax requires 500 of Australia's top polluting companies to "pay a fixed price, starting at Aus$23 per tonne, for their carbon dioxide emissions for the first three years. The mechanism would then shift
Almost all people rely on gas, green or not green. Due to this, a tax would affect almost everyone. With raising taxes, people will consume less overall. This will lead all people to either drive less, or to buy a more efficient car. As mentioned previously, a higher mpg does not mean less gas consumption because may be inclined to drive more. If gas cost more, this would guarantee that the quantity demanded of gas would move leftward up the demand curve, therefore less gas would be consumed. Also, with this tax, the government would be left with some funds that could be used to reduce emissions as well. One example could be to invest the tax funds into a green-friendly public transport system. This would in theory reduce the amount of people using cars and reduce the overall amount of
In order to examine and combat global warming, Senator Bernie Sanders and Barbara Boxer introduced the Global Warming Pollution Reduction Act of 2007 on Jan 15th, 2007. The act was proposed to increase performance abilities for electricity generation and motor vehicles with the choice in emissions “cap and trade” system. Unfortunately, the bill failed to pass committee in 2013. (Environmental Defense Fund, 2007)
Levying carbon taxes would be useless in my opinion. As financial burdens will increase on Australian families and industries. Look at cigarettes for instance, cigarettes are generally taxed globally at a huge extent than any other product. However, the amount of cigarettes
Since the beginning of the industrial revolution machinery and surface temperatures have been on the rise. Some may argue that the increasing temperatures are strictly due to the rise of machinery and less strict efficiency standards. The U.S has been debating what methods are efficient for combating increasing emissions some argue that a carbon tax has many positive impacts some say if one were to be adopted they would need reforms. This paper will dive deep into the the effects of climate of change and whether or not a carbon tax can fully help to decrease these emissions.
In Australia, there is an emerging consensus that the government should take further actions to help mitigate and combat climate change. The current most accepted policy by government is the introduction of a carbon tax followed by an ETS in 2015. However we are focusing on the carbon tax in this essay and not the ETS. Here is a brief explanation of the dynamics of a carbon tax. A carbon tax is a tax on energy sources, which emit carbon dioxide (Co2). Therefore, carbon taxes address the problem of negative externality. Externalities are the subsequent effects when individual production or consumption of a particular good or service imposes costs or benefits on others. Therefore negative externalities are effects, which pose harm to others without their direct interaction (Basic Economics 2011). However, usual market practices and transactions do not reflect these cost and benefits in the prices involved in the transaction, or take into account in their transaction decision. Therefore this is a form of market failure. By imposing a cost on these negative externalities, the hidden cost can be addressed. Ultimately the purpose of a carbon tax is to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and therefore reduce
Did you know that the United States is the second largest contributor of CO2, and the less concerned about it? Climate change has been a problem for decades, but just recently we start to see how big of a problem climate change is, and can be. Climate change is one of the biggest problems that we are facing right now, even if keep trying to act like is nothing. Everybody, the people, the government, and big companies are a big contributor of this phenomenon. The more we keep denying its effects, the more we are going to regret it later, and going to wish that we could go back and try to fix the issue. You going to know one day, and its going to be late. Climate change should be the U.S government main focus this decade and the ones to come. Climate change can affect a country in every way economically, destroyed …., cause a lot of deaths.