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>And the way to make the GHG-friendly stuff cheap is to tax the shit out of the GHG-positive things. Making everything more expensive is a political dead-end,
by navigatesol 7y ago
>And the way to make the GHG-friendly stuff cheap is to tax the shit out of the GHG-positive things.
Making everything more expensive is a political dead-end, and would exacerbate income inequality.
- oftenwrong 7y agoNot if it is revenue-neutral.
- pas 7y agoWho said everything? Taxing stuff that comes from large scale industrial destruction of the environment is completely different than everything. Plus all the carbon tax schemes start with direct rebates to the tax payers in equal parts, so those who consume more get less back than those who don't.
- academic_nimrod 7y ago>Taxing stuff that comes from large scale industrial destruction of the environment is completely different than everything. That's pretty much everything. At the very least, the commodities used to make everything are sourced from large industrial processes.
- yellowapple 7y agoWhich is why you'd want to combine the tax with a subsidy for "clean" products (financed by those very same taxes, perhaps).