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« Q: What's wrong with this piece? | Main | Market Power on the naivete' of Mankiw's Pigouvian Club »

November 13, 2006

The new carbon tax advocates?

From Slate:

In a Nov. 9 Wall Street Journal op-ed, former Bush speechwriter David Frum suggested that President Bush propose a carbon tax. N. Gregory Mankiw, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Bush White House, suggested the same thing in an Oct. 20 op-ed in the Journal, and former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan talked it up in late September. Harvard's Martin Feldstein and Weekly Standard contributing editor Irwin Stelzer like the idea, too. Slate "Moneybox" columnist Dan Gross took note of this unexpected GOP trend in an Oct. 8 New York Times column.

And it is getting a bit cooler in the place where the fallen angel lives and works. Could it freeze over?

Hat tip: Jeb and a certain dancing carpenter.

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