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What’s your houshold’s cap-and-trade tax?

July 1st, 2009, 6:42 am · 2 Comments · posted by Mark Landsbaum

We present today a helpful guide for budgeting your money over the coming years. The Tax Foundation has provided a nifty calculator online for computing the “financial burden” of a cap-and-trade system to (ahem) curb greenhouse gases.

The calculator shows how much a household can expect to shell out based on a study conducted by the foundation.

The average family’s burden would be $1,218 or about 2 percent of its average household income, the foundation tells us. Oh yeah, one other thing. That’s 2 percent on top of all the taxes and do-good burdens you already pay.

Ah, what the heck. A measley 2 percent. You didn’t need that dough anyway, huh?

Go here for the calculator. Then go here  or here or here to complain about it.

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     2 Comments

    • NO cuts for jannies says:
      July 1, 2009 at 12:40 pm

      Marc,
      Just curious, but is your editor happy with your one trick ponery on subjects that you write about? I mean seriously, I could get a whole years worth of Landsbaum editorial stance by reading justone of your posts. no wonder the register is tanking and everyone got a 5% pay cut. They ought to just can your ass and make up the difference.

    • Rick says:
      July 1, 2009 at 3:42 pm

      Jannies,

      I think Mark is just trying to get his point through to thick headed people who cannot understand there are other viewpoints. You have to keep trying and trying and trying……….