Pollution tax rebates little help for low-income workers
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 - 14:20
in Earth & Climate
Although policymakers believe the regressiveness of pollution taxes can be offset by returning revenue to the low paid through a reduced labor tax, that approach may not work, and also could have the unintended consequence of shrinking some workers' overall real net wages, according to research by a University of Illinois energy policy expert.