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I would love to see this model made feasible with a carbon tax, so that companies that couldn't meet a carbon goal could just buy their way down artificially or
by shakezula 6y ago
I would love to see this model made feasible with a carbon tax, so that companies that couldn't meet a carbon goal could just buy their way down artificially or pay the government the taxes.
- exabrial 6y agoThe best way to ruin a well run industry is introducing taxes. Just let it be. We've endured 25 years of BS to get this far and all the taxes in the world didn't help.
- kolinko 6y agoCarbon tax is nit really a tax, but a patment for someone else to clean up your mess (released co2). And at the current prices it doesn’t cover even 20% of the cost of removal of co2, not to mention the environment destruction.
- young_unixer 6y agoI'm as libertarian as they come, but if there's one action that should be taxed, that's pollution. If everyone was simply free to pollute all they wanted, we'd all end up severely ill, which doesn't sound like freedom to me.
- kolinko 6y ago> but there should be no “but” in this sentence - the libertarian approach would be to allow anyone to pollute as much as they want as long as they clean up the pollution afterwards (or pay for cleanup :) )
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- JamisonM 6y agoThat's cap and trade, right?
- philips 6y agoCap and trade is one method. Another is things like tax and dividend https://energyinnovationact.org/ https://energyinnovationact.org/
- lend000 6y agoCap and trade is an imperfect and overly complex attempt at a carbon tax, which is a direct tax on the amount of pollution created.
- hannob 6y agoThat's the theory of cap and trade. It's not how it works in any real-world setting.