CARBON TAX has Positive Impact on economy! (Where one has been implemented.)

The positive economic impact of a carbon tax in, uh, hang on … 10 charts  There is no federal carbon tax coming to the U.S. any time soon, not as long as a revanchist, reactionary bunch of fruitbats runs the Republican Party and gerrymanders itself a decade-long House majority. (Ahem.) But just as an intellectual exercise, if nothing else, let’s take note of the fact that warnings about the calamitous effects of a carbon tax are nonsense.  Two new data points on this.      

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