Redefining Progress Common Assets program
reclaims out shared resources as the basis for our common wealth, increasingly privatized, enclosed,
divested and depleted.
James A. Paul and Katarina Wahlberg (2002).
Global
Taxes for Global Priorities. Excellent summary with emphasis on carbon tax
and currency transaction tax.
From the same site, the Global Policy Forum page on
Global
Taxes is a mine of information.
M. Jeff Hammond et al. (1997).
Tax Waste, Not Work, summary version available at
publications page of
Redefining Progress. In 1999 and 2000, Redefining Progress published a series of reports
on environmental tax shifting that are also available from this page.
Citizen's Guide to Environmental Tax Shifting. Download from
Friends of the Earth tax reform page.
Green Scissors
Annual reports on cutting wasteful and environmentally harmful spending, such as small business tax credits for the purchase of SUVs and timber road subsidies.
Andre de Moor and Peter Calamai.
Subsidizing Unsustainable Development: Undermining the Earth with Public Funds.
Begin at Chapter 1.
The Real Price of Gasoline: An Analysis Of The Hidden External Costs Consumers Pay To Fuel Their Automobiles (1998).
Download from the International Center for Technology Assessment
(PDF 1.7 MB) together with the January 2005 update on "protection costs".