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carbon taxes under most systems are revenue neutral. Here in Canada, most people recieve more back then they payed in, because the highest income brackets emit
by Hammershaft 5y ago
carbon taxes under most systems are revenue neutral. Here in Canada, most people recieve more back then they payed in, because the highest income brackets emit disproportionately.
- deworms 5y agoAll taxes come with an overhead required to process them. I oppose all such arbitrary wealth redistribution as unjust in principle.
- Hammershaft 5y agoWhen I buy energy produced by coal, and the coal emissions contribute to children contracting asthma, my transaction is creating external costs that I don't pay. These negative externalities are unjust and inefficient. Pigouvian taxes such as a carbon tax work to price in the cost of these negative externalities, thereby changing behavior to reduce that form of injustice. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax