Obama said a windfall profits tax would ease the burden of energy costs on working families.
How much more productive we could be without the burden of punitive energy prices?
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Proceeds from a carbon tax can be refunded to ease the burden on families of higher energy prices, especially households with lower incomes.
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The strategy will lay plans to guarantee security of supply of gas into the UK. The chancellor believes gas will probably be relatively cheap in future and does not want to burden the UK economy with high energy prices.
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Investors will still have gripes, ranging from suspicions about the regulator's independence to the tax burden, which eats up 40% of energy revenues.
Most of this burden was carried as an implicit subsidy to domestic energy consumers, with the price of diesel fuel, for example, set at the equivalent of two American cents a litre, and petrol selling for less than bottled water.
When you consider that people with lower incomes would no longer be paying payroll taxes, would be partially exempt from income taxes, and would be able to easily avoid the energy tax, we can see that their overall tax burden could be significantly reduced.
State and local law makers have turned the energy industry into tax collectors and in the process increased the burden imposed on rate-payers.
But you will be pushing a tremendous burden of adjustment on to enterprises, which will have to pay much higher energy prices.
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That means reducing the burden of regulation and deepening the single market, extending it to areas such as energy, transport, services and the digital economy.
The Chinese government has started to discourage the expansion of energy-intensive industries, including aluminium and steelmaking, in an effort to ease the burden on its grid.
Driving imposes a heavier burden of externalities when it is done at rush hour (it adds to delays and is less energy-efficient) so such journeys ought to cost a driver more.
As far as energy analyst David Hunter is concerned, it is the Western businesses that are carrying the financial burden of reducing carbon emissions.
Ethanol subsidies are a spending programme placed in the tax code that increases the burden of government, keeps tax rates artificially high, and forces consumers to pay more for fuel and energy.
Labour AM Vaughan Gething called for clearer tariff information from the energy providers as he argued that the pressure to find the best deal was putting an additional burden on the poorest in the society.
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