Implementing a Carbon Tax in the United States to Reduce Carbon Emissions

Payne Student Scholar Torre Brown writes about how in support of the current fight against global climate change, over forty countries around the world have already implemented a tax on carbon emissions in some capacity. The United States as a whole is not one of these forty countries despite being one of the largest contributors to global carbon emissions. This paper analyzes what some approaches to a country-wide implementation of carbon tax could be in the United States, and evaluates their potential success economically, socially, and in terms of overall carbon reduction.  March 10, 2021.