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My opinion it would be better politically if the government used carbon taxes to help people switch away from fossil fuels. It's one thing to pay a carbon tax a
by Gibbon1 5y ago
My opinion it would be better politically if the government used carbon taxes to help people switch away from fossil fuels. It's one thing to pay a carbon tax as a Calvinistic Punishment for carbon sinning. Another if you think the tax is actually solving the problem.
- throw0101a 5y ago> My opinion it would be better politically if the government used carbon taxes to help people switch away from fossil fuels. The province of Ontario originally had a cap-and-trade system where the fees collected would be used towards transit and other 'green' projects. There was an election and that was rescinded, so the province default to the national plan (which they challenged legally, and lost per the above). If people want "market" solutions, then carbon pricing and cap-and-trade are the two ways to do it. The latter was used by the US and Canada in ~1990 to successfully deal with acid rain. > It's one thing to pay a carbon tax as a Calvinistic Punishment for carbon sinning. It's not a sin tax: it's paying for the pollution that is currently externalized. Price signalling is hardly moralistic.