<div>A carbon tax with tax shifting or other compensation, or a fee and dividend system, would offer relief to consumers of low and middle incomes for the increases in the cost of goods and services. In fact, some economic projections show low and middle income consumers coming out ahead financially, with a carbon tax and tax shifting or other compensation, or fee and dividend systems, to promote a quicker transition away from fossil fuels. </div>
<div> </div><div>This of course would depend on their economic choices. If someone used a lot of coal fired electricity and drove a gas guzzler 100 miles a day to commute, they would see a large increase in the cost of coal and oil energy associated with their lifestyle. But for those who make choices to avoid intensive fossil fuel associated economic decisions, the reduction in their taxes or other compensation or the dividend payments they would receive, could offer the chance to economically benefit from the tax or fee on carbon.</div>
<div> </div><div>Incredible that in this thread, Australia's plan, just now being implemented, though in the works for a long time, to tax carbon and compensate families for the increases in costs, was not mentioned once... </div>
<div> </div><div>Below are sources of information on carbon tax and tax shifting or other compensation, and fee and dividend systems. <a href="http://Cleanenergyfuture.gov.au">Cleanenergyfuture.gov.au</a> source below claims compensation of 120 percent of the expected increases in costs from the carbon tax:</div>
<div><br>Lowering Income Taxes While Raising Pollution Taxes Reaps Great Returns </div><div class="planBAuthor">Lester R. Brown<br><a href="http://www.earth-policy.org/book_bytes/2010/pb4ch10_ss2">http://www.earth-policy.org/book_bytes/2010/pb4ch10_ss2</a></div>
<div class="planBAuthor">-------------------------------</div><div class="planBAuthor"><div class="bookTitle"><a href="http://www.earth-policy.org/books/pb3">Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization</a></div><div class="bookAuthor">
Lester R. Brown</div><div class="bookAuthor"><font>Chapter 13. The Great Mobilization: Shifting Taxes and Subsidies</font></div></div><div class="planBAuthor"><a href="http://www.earth-policy.org/books/pb3/PB3ch13_ss2">http://www.earth-policy.org/books/pb3/PB3ch13_ss2</a></div>
<div class="planBAuthor">------------------------------</div><div class="planBAuthor">Info on Australia's "Clean Energy Future" plan with a carbon tax:</div><div class="planBAuthor"><div class="planBAuthor">
<a href="http://www.cleanenergyfuture.gov.au/helping-households/who-will-get-assistance/">http://www.cleanenergyfuture.gov.au/helping-households/who-will-get-assistance/</a></div></div><div class="planBAuthor">Over 4 million households get assistance worth 120 per cent of their expected average price impact</div>
<div class="planBAuthor">-----------------------------</div><div class="planBAuthor">Info below on a fee and dividend system presented to the US Congress:</div><div class="planBAuthor">Carbon Tax and 100% Dividend vs. Tax and Trade</div>
<div class="planBAuthor">Testimony of James E. Hansen<br>Committee on Ways and Means</div><div class="planBAuthor">US House of Representatives</div><div class="planBAuthor"><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/2009/WaysAndMeans_20090225.pdf">http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/2009/WaysAndMeans_20090225.pdf</a></div>
<div class="planBAuthor"> </div><div class="planBAuthor">"...Tax and 100% Dividend--tax carbon emissions, but give all of the money back to the public..."</div><div class="planBAuthor"> </div><div class="planBAuthor">
NASA climate scientist James Hansen, quoted above, has opposed the cap and trade system that the Obama administration was trying to pass the US Congress, that failed:</div><div class="planBAuthor">Cap and Fade</div><div class="planBAuthor">
By JAMES HANSEN</div><div class="planBAuthor">Published: December 6, 2009</div><div class="planBAuthor"> </div><div class="planBAuthor"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/07/opinion/07hansen.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/07/opinion/07hansen.html</a></div>
<div class="planBAuthor"> </div><div class="planBAuthor"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/07/opinion/07hansen.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/07/opinion/07hansen.html</a></div><div class="planBAuthor">---------------------------------------</div>
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