Should we just stop breathing? Spanberger’s backdoor carbon tax

Published October 5, 2026 6:00am ET



Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) forced Virginia back into the secretive Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a backdoor carbon tax that sells off legal permission to emit carbon dioxide and will spike the price of everything.

Virginia recently rejoined the RGGI allowance auction tax program, an especially nasty carbon tax, as the fluctuating nature of this artificial market is inherently unpredictable and thus awful for business.

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