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The evidence is in: America's meat-based diet costs this country billions of dollars in health care costs and billions more in environmental destruction. It's time for an excise tax on meat. The Health Argument Eating animal products is harmful to human health. People who eat meat are at least 30 percent more likely to die of a heart attack, 40 percent more likely to get cancer, and at increased ...

William Gale Op-Ed: Economic Studies: Brookings Institution ...

Green Taxes David Morris, Vice President Institute for Local Self-Reliance, 1994 In the past 25 years we have substantially increased taxes on labor and modestly increased taxes on income while allowing pollution and resource depletion to remain largely untaxed. The result is that we have created a tax system that encourages resource depletion and discourages investments in machinery and labor.

Atlantic Unbound: The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Online ...

Youre Being Played for a Sucker Though few would be surprised by the statement that the rich have gotten richer during the past two decades, many of you would be amazed to know that the richest 1.5% of the population have gotten nearly all income growth. In 1997, the top one-third of one percent had 67% of the nations growth in personal income. By contrast, the 50% with a 1997 AGI (adjusted ...