According to Boston.com, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick is asking for a $2 'carbon fee' for parking at Logan Airport. The fee is part of his bill to overhaul transportation in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Carbon Fee? Why not just call it the parking cost increase that it is (your basic stealth tax increase that will only effect a small percentage of people and therefore will not cause too much resistence)?
The misplaced war on carbon will see many such stealth tax increases. The cap and trade proposals in the new budget proposed by President Obama will have the same kind of stealth tax increases on people and businesses. The stealth tax increases on businesses will be passed on to the consumer, and despite promises to the contrary, we will all be paying more taxes in the future.
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