Archive for January, 2009
A sliding petrol tax makes practical and economic sense How do we get it to make political sense
Posted by Paul 14 January 2009A Brookings Institute article on the 14th January 2009 (http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2009/0106_oil_cycle_bordoff.aspx?emc=lm&m=221225&l=66&v=1030926) suggests that a sliding petrol (gasoline for our American readers) tax would stop the boom bust cycle in oil pricing and provide economic certainty. The way that this works is to put a sliding tax on petrol so that the tax is higher when the [...]