Why a Green New Deal Must Include a Carbon Tax

Ed Dolan
The Kernel
Published in
7 min readFeb 5, 2019

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No Democrat is going to win the 2020 presidential nomination without a position on climate change. It was hardly a surprise, then, when in her first-of-the-season town hall on CNN, candidate Kamala Harris was asked if she would endorse the hottest new thing in Democratic environmental politics — the Green New Deal (GND).

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Ed Dolan
The Kernel

Economist, Senior Fellow at Niskanen Center, Yale Ph.D. Interests include environment, health care policy, social safety net, economic freedom.