Senate Republicans Working on “Foreign Pollution Act” to Tax Carbon

We spotted an article that was quite alarming for us. Conservative Republicans in the U.S. Senate are working on "a tariff on carbon-intensive goods," which is, according to the article, "a concept environmentalists have long considered a crucial tool to combat climate change." Republicans working on a carbon tax? Really? But then we read further and discovered it is not a carbon tax on goods produced here in this country, but a tariff (tax) on imported goods from other countries--namely from China.

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