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World wide tax on fossil fuels that starts out painful and increases gradually to unaffordable.
by empath75 8y ago
World wide tax on fossil fuels that starts out painful and increases gradually to unaffordable.
- naasking 8y agoWhich disproportionately impacts the poor who have to commute into unaffordable cities. You see there are no easy solutions, our societies have built-in negative externalities of all kinds that culminated in this problem.
- adrianN 8y agoYou know what also disproportionately impacts the poor? Catastrophic climate change. At least a tax can be structured in a way that poor people are less impacted.
- empath75 8y agoThere will at least at first be a lot of new tax revenue from it to redistribute.
- naasking 8y agoPoor people are often already living paycheck to paycheck. A refund at the end of the year will be pretty late for many of them.