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You cannot just introduce tax and hope for best when the whole tax system and tax recovery is a joke that hurts mainly SMBs. Its not like big corporations will
by funkyy 11y ago
You cannot just introduce tax and hope for best when the whole tax system and tax recovery is a joke that hurts mainly SMBs. Its not like big corporations will pay them anyway.
If you want to introduce a tax on something so intangible as emissions, you would need to build easy to track and easy to use tax system.
- pzone 11y ago?? You just tax sales of oil, natural gas, etc. and a few other specific activities, like raising livestock, it's super easy If Congress can implement something as complex as the Dodd-Frank act, I'm sure it can measure and tax something as basic as carbon emissions
- dagw 11y agoIf only a few countries introduces/enforces this tax it will simply drive the huge carbon emitters to move their emissions to other countries. The only people that will be hurt are those that are too small to move.
- pzone 11y agoYes, and that's why 160+ world leaders are gathering in Paris to take steps toward a global carbon emissions agreement
- funkyy 11y agoUS and China are unlikely to go with it or they will end up playing the rules. The same as it is now. Also - you are right, taxing will work. Its not like corporations and huge manufacturers will play the system and avoid paying taxes or getting them back through loopholes. Only ones affected will be mostly SMBs and regular folks - as always.