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> Poor people won't be able to afford a car or meat and they'll be the first ones to go bankrupt A good solution to that would be to payout all of the proceeds
by TheCoelacanth 10y ago
> Poor people won't be able to afford a car or meat and they'll be the first ones to go bankrupt
A good solution to that would be to payout all of the proceeds of the carbon tax split evenly between everyone. That way people with below average carbon emissions will actually end up with more money than they had before, though they would still be incentivized to emit less.
- WalterBright 10y agoThe idea was to couple it with a sales tax reduction, and sales tax is usually characterized as regressive (disproportionately affecting the poor).