Are Green Taxes a Good Way to Help Solve State Budget？Deficits.docVIP

Sustainability 2012, 4, 1329-1353; doi:10.3390/su4061329 OPEN ACCESS sustainability ISSN 2071-1050 /journal/sustainability Article Are Green Taxes a Good Way to Help Solve State Budget Deficits? Rong Zhou and Kathleen Segerson * Department of Economics, University of Connecticut, Box U-63, Storrs, CT 06269, USA; E-Mail: rong.2.zhou@ * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: kathleen.segerson@; Tel.: +1-860-486-4567; Fax: +1-860-486-4463. Received: 8 May 2012; in revised form: 31 May 2012 / Accepted: 7 June 2012 / Published: 18 June 2012 Abstract: States are increasingl