{"id":2737,"date":"2016-10-22T07:18:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T14:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/?p=2737"},"modified":"2016-10-22T07:18:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T14:18:52","slug":"this-tuesday-1025-debate-on-wa-initiative-732-regarding-a-carbon-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/2016\/10\/22\/this-tuesday-1025-debate-on-wa-initiative-732-regarding-a-carbon-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"This Tuesday, 10\/25: Debate on WA Initiative 732 regarding a carbon tax."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where: McIntyre 107<br \/>\nWhen: 4 &#8211; 5pm, Tuesday 10\/25<\/p>\n<p>The Economics Department is hosting a discussion of WA initiative 732 which seeks to create a revenue neutral carbon tax in Washington state to combat greenhouse gas emissions. Advocates from both the &#8216;pro&#8217; and &#8216;con&#8217; camps will be speaking. Yoram Bauman, economist for CarbonWA.org and one of the founders of I-732 will speak in favor of the measure. Brandon Houskeeper from the Association of Washington Business will make the case against the measure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where: McIntyre 107 When: 4 &#8211; 5pm, Tuesday 10\/25 The Economics Department is hosting a discussion of WA initiative 732 which seeks to create a revenue neutral carbon tax in Washington state to combat greenhouse gas emissions. Advocates from both the &#8216;pro&#8217; and &#8216;con&#8217; camps will be speaking. Yoram Bauman, economist for CarbonWA.org and one of the founders of I-732 will speak in favor of the measure. Brandon Houskeeper from the Association of Washington Business will make the case against the measure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[321,92,88,122],"class_list":["post-2737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-2016-election","tag-energy","tag-environmental-economics","tag-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2738,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions\/2738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}