3 ms·
Having a carbon tax would require to measure carbon output somewhere, isn't it? How would that work? I mean, where in the chain does the measure take place? How
by iagovar 6y ago
Having a carbon tax would require to measure carbon output somewhere, isn't it? How would that work? I mean, where in the chain does the measure take place? How is it accounted?
For some reason carbon tax seems like a lot of extra and complicated steps to just tax fossil fuels way more. If we tax oil, coal and gas a lot, that's basically a simple way of taxing carbon emissions, isn't it? It's way simpler to manage, and actually sound like something realistic.
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- sampo 6y ago> For some reason carbon tax seems like a lot of extra and complicated steps to just tax fossil fuels way more. This is what carbon tax means. Taxing fuels according to their carbon content. Carbon content is easy to determine precisely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_tax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_tax The imprecise part would be estimating and placing import taxes for products and services from countries that do not take part in the carbon tax system.
- gpm 6y ago> The imprecise part would be estimating and placing import taxes for products and services from countries that do not take part in the carbon tax system. And countries that would pretend to tax carbon but "not try that hard" to stop illegal untaxed fossil fuel use.
- kps 6y agoYes, Canada has a carbon tax but no carbon tariff, with the obvious incentive to move economic activity to dirtier countries.