Brad Plumer flags an IMF paper (about Mauritius, as it happens) that offers a convenient chart showing that the United States raises the least revenue from environmental taxation of anyone in the OECD:
Bad stuff. At a moment of rising deficit panic, turning this around should definitely be on the table.
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