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REVISION: If true, seems like it would feasible for the US, but unclear how regions like Africa & Asian would do the same. Any ideas? Below is the original com
by saycheese 10y ago
REVISION: If true, seems like it would feasible for the US, but unclear how regions like Africa & Asian would do the same. Any ideas?
Below is the original comment with correction for accounting error.
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$15 per person per US person[2] per year does not sound like a lot, but in sum per year it's a massive amount of money; amount would be $4,847,228,805.
For example, per person using the 2014 net collections[1] of the US's net tax collections divided by the population estimate for July 2016[2], the US revenue per person is $8,000.
[1] ($2,690,755,432) https://www.irs.gov/uac/soi-tax-stats-collections-and-refunds-by-type-of-tax-irs-data-book-table-1 https://www.irs.gov/uac/soi-tax-stats-collections-and-refund...
[2] (323,148,587) http://www.census.gov/popclock/ http://www.census.gov/popclock/
On the spreadsheet, money amounts are in thousands of dollars.
- smarterclayton 10y agoThe US tax charts are reported in thousands, so 2.6 trillion / 323 million = 8k per person, not 8
- saycheese 10y agoThanks, missed the "Money amounts are in thousands of dollars" - corrected the comment above.
- woofyman 10y agoYour first link, the numbers are in thousands of dollars so the correct amount is $2,690,755,432,000 nearly 3 trillion dollars.
- saycheese 10y agoThanks, corrected the error.
- ph0rque 10y agoWhat do taxes have to do with it? What I'm saying in my blog post is if you want to do something about your personal CO2 emissions and you live in the US, you could donate $15/year to sequester all of them (if you don't live in the US, you would probably need to donate less than $15 to sequester all your CO2 for that year, but you would have to do the calculation yourself).
- saycheese 10y agoEdited my comment to reflect this accounting error, revisit the comment to see the correction and related revision. At the point you're spending billions in sum in a country for a reoccurring & necessary theoricially non-profit service, it would make more sense to do this via the government; yes, I get it's not a requirement, assumes government is functions efficiently, etc.
- ph0rque 10y agoIt might theoretically make more sense to do it via the government, but you can do this right now without waiting for the government.
- jschwartzi 10y agoIf that's all it would cost, I would gladly donate $45. $15 for myself and $30 for my parents.
- saycheese 10y agoAgree, in the context of the annual budget of the US, seems like this is possible at scale, but feels like this is too simple of an answer; looking into it.
- ph0rque 10y agoThis is the second year I've been donating $100 for my family of six, and a bit more on top of that. (Sorry if this comes off as bragging; my intent is to show that I am putting my money where my mouth is.)
- saycheese 10y agoJust realized your username, checked site for updates, and posted the most recent update here, "AutoMicroFarm: My YC Results, AutoMicroFarm Product Development, Moving Forward" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13457660 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13457660 Thanks for posting an update - if the titles not right, just post a comment and I'll update it.