Green Capitalism - Waves of the Future
Climate Change, Non-Renewable Resources, Energy, Contaminants, Carbon Pricing...Revenue-Neutral Environmental Taxation:
The Best Free Option for Global Warming and the Environment
Revenue-neutral taxation is actually one of the best tools we have for the environment
It is effective, easily scalable, and essentially free to the taxpayer. It could be used to create a green economic environment.
One of the biggest obstacles to environmental change has been the lack of funding. However, a Green Economic Environment (GEE) strategy could make the issue irrelevant.
See also Book II of the Waves of the Future Series
With Henderson's structural strategy--the Green Economic Environment (GEE)--taxes would be raised on non-green products and lowered on income and retail sales. For example, the total cost of gasoline might go up $200 in a year, but income tax would go down by $200.
In this new landscape, non-green products would be more expensive, but people would have more spending money. In the end, they would be able to buy about the same amount of goods as they did before.
The GEE would shift consumption to greener products and boost demand and markets for environmental goods. Green jobs would be created, and the ones that resulted from fiscal stimulus packages, preserved.
It would provide an economic environment that would promote carbon emission reduction. It could work with or be an alternative to cap-and-trade. Unlike that latter, the approach is applicable to other environmental issues. It is also easily scalable, allowing countries to start with low taxation levels and increase them gradually as desired.