Jeffrey D. Sachs Quotes

The United States Is Absolutely Ripe For A Rise In Gasoline Taxes. The Nominal Gasoline Excise Tax Rate Has Been Fixed At 18.4 Cents Per Gallon Since 1994.29 Inflation Alone Has Reduced The Real Value Of That Tax Per Gallon By Around 30 Percent. As With Other Federal Tax Rates, The U.S. Excise Tax Rate On Gasoline Is Extremely Low By International Comparison. We Might Conservatively Assume That By 2015 An Extra 0.5 Percent Of GDP Could Be Collected By Some Combination Of A Higher Gasoline Excise Tax And Modest Carbon Levies On Other Fossil Fuels (such As On Coal At The Utilities). Other

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