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Florida should favor a carbon tax to address climate change | Letters
Here’s what readers are saying in Wednesday’s letters to the editor.
 
Published Mar. 3
Good for the Florida Legislature for talking about climate change. Sadly, as reporter Zachary T. Sampson’s piece mentions, lawmakers are only talking about treating effects. We need to address the cause. We need to stop burning carbon-based fuels. The simplest way to achieve that goal is a national tax on carbon fuels. A policy which taxes carbon and returns all money collected back to citizens would be effective and fair. Most people would benefit economically. U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney recently spoke in favor of this approach. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Business Roundtable support pricing carbon, as do many Americans. Our state leadership needs to encourage Congress to act on the cause of climate change, not just mitigate. ....

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