Here's a good idea being proposed by Michigan Lt. Governor John Cherry: tax wasteful water bottle sales and funnel the money into something that could use a little pocketbook padding-education.
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The researchers at the EWG have released yet another report about how gross our drinking water is. But before your eyes glaze over and you grumble...
From the people who brought you "The Story of Stuff" comes "The Story of Bottled Water." Have a look at the preview after the jump. Looks...
Yesterday voters in Oregon did something crazy: They voted to raise taxes on Oregonians. More specifically, they voted to raise taxes on the...
As tax day draws inexorably closer and closer, people become more and more focused on getting the most out of their returns. For those who have...
Jonathan Maus, of Bike Portland, looks at the idea of charging an excise tax on bikes and cycling equipment: 2010 will be a year of major...
Washington D.C. instituted a 5-cent tax on disposable bags-both paper and plastic-on New Year's Day. Now, when you go to the grocery store in the...
Yes, it did. The District's 5-cent bag tax generated about $150,000 during January to help clean up the Anacostia River, even though residents...
Washington D.C.'s first-of-its-kind tax on disposable bags made quite a splash a week or so ago. Now the District is trying to figure out what...
You may remember the idea of taxing soda to help pay for health care reform. I thought it was a pretty good idea. You know who didn't, though?...
This idea of taxing people for the miles they drive is back in the news. From The Washington Post: The flow of the gas tax pipeline that has...
This is nice: The Wall Street Journal is going to stop using the term "death tax" to describe the estate tax, a tax on inheritance: ...the term...
Meg Whitman's first television ad in the 2010 California gubernatorial race, "Confidence," promises to fix schools and cut taxes, just not in that...
As you probably know, when you go to the grocery store, most of your non-luxury items are tax free. Your bread, and milk, and meat all comes...
The House of Representatives half of Congress was fighting over transportation funding this week and the big sticking point for House...
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Despite the slightly dubious name, the ecoATM is a smart piece of work. Like those Coinstar machines, the ecoATM is designed to sit in grocery and...
After the TSA pats you down, x-rays your undies, and dumps your liquids, at least now you don't have to pay $4 for bottled water.
New liquid soap packaged is in old plastic soda bottles, plastic water bottles and glass bottles.
