by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math
Brad Plumer highlights Chris Dodd's proposal for something he calls (Dodd, that is) dubs a "Corporate Carbon Tax". Carbon taxes are supposedly easier to manage and harder to defraud than cap-and-trade regimes, but they're not part of the debate in Washington because the punditocracy tut-tuts anyone who says they want to raise taxes. So it's nice to see Dodd making a big step to make carbon taxes part of the debate in Washington, rather than just right-of-center pundits imagining solutions that will never happen.
The difficulty question, of course, is which right-of-center politician Dodd could find to support a carbon tax over cap-and-trade. I suppose the Corn Belt Republicans have no reason to prefer one to the other, so maybe Chuck Grassley (R-IA), whose record when it comes to IRS oversight suggests he wants a small government, but cares about how effective it is, might be a good start.