Green Taxes
All of Sightline's research, publications, and ideas for using Cascadia's tax system to improve the region's long-term well-being.
Taxes are the DNA of the economy: invisible, cryptic, and awesomely powerful. But unfortunately, the tax system penalizes many of the activities northwesterners want more of--such as work and investment, while encouraging activities that northwesterners want less of--such as sprawl and waste.
In this section, you'll find Sightline's research and resources on a revolutionary approach to tax reform called tax shifting--or green taxes--which replaces taxes on "goods" with taxes on "bads."
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Book
Tax Shift
Tax Shift is a program for using the tax system to get more of what we want, such as flusher bank accounts, clean air, and healthier communities. -
Fact sheet
Green Taxes - Highlights
The top findings from Sightline's research on using Cascadia's tax system to improve the region's long-term well-being. -
Report
Policy Analysis: Bulk Discounts for Polluters
According to a new analysis by Seattle-based Sightline Institute, one of Washington State’s few fees designed to discourage toxic pollution is undermined because it gives bulk discounts to the state's biggest polluters.
- Resources
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Book
The Natural Wealth of Nations
The Natural Wealth of Nations offers concrete solutions to environmental problems by showing how we can turn the tremendous power of market economies away from environmentally destructive activities and toward protecting natural wealth of human health. 1998; World Watch Institute; 303 pp.; -
Organization
Pembina Institute
An organization that has research and education programs in the areas of sustainable energy, climate change, environmental governance, ecological fiscal reform, sustainability indicators, and the environmental impacts of the energy industry. http://www.pembina.org -
Resource site
Ecosystem Marketplace
A source of information on markets and payment schemes for ecosystem services, such as water quality, carbon sequestration, and biodiversity. http://www.ecosystemmarketplace.com
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