Green Taxes - Research & Publications

09/05/2007
Report

Policy Analysis: Bulk Discounts for Polluters

According to a new analysis by Seattle-based Sightline Institute, one of Washington State’s few fees designed to discourage toxic pollution is undermined because it gives bulk discounts to the state's biggest polluters.

03/07/2006
Fact sheet

Green Taxes - Highlights

The top findings from Sightline's research on using Cascadia's tax system to improve the region's long-term well-being.

11/18/2004
Article by Sightline

Down the Road to a Driving Tax

Americans, and Californians above all, live in a motor-head democracy. More adults hold driver's licenses than voter cards, and taxes on automobiles have been disappearing as fast as Democrats from the U.S. Senate.

06/01/1998
Book

Tax Shift

Tax Shift is a program for using the tax system to get more of what we want, such as flusher bank accounts, clean air, and healthier communities.

03/07/1998
Page

Tax Shift - Excerpt

Ever since the Boston Tea Party, tax revolts have shaped politics on this continent. No wonder. Taxes not only claim billions of dollars from citizens; they also influence billions of daily decisions shaping, or misshaping, the economy.