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Except who actually pays the tax? Energy consumers, which is anyone who needs electricity or fuel for their household. You just don't see it in the explanation
by ThunderSizzle 5y ago
Except who actually pays the tax? Energy consumers, which is anyone who needs electricity or fuel for their household.
You just don't see it in the explanation of why your electric rates went up 50-100%. Or, if it doesn't go up, you start living with brown outs and blackouts like California.
- mavhc 5y agoThe consumers, they pay all for everything after all. The point is to stop companies cheating by polluting for free to make their product cheaper at our expense
- ThunderSizzle 5y agoThat's not what will happen. The consumers have to pay for electricity, otherwise your sending them back to the stoneage.
- mavhc 5y agoBut they should prefer to get solar/wind/nuclear, which would be half the price of coal/oil/gas if those 3 weren't cheating by polluting our air for free
- timbit42 5y agoConsumers should switch to low carbon goods and services to avoid paying the carbon tax.
- TheCoelacanth 5y agoThat's why the proceeds of the carbon tax should be split up and paid out evenly across the whole population. It's not just a uniform increase in prices. It's people who emit an above average amount of carbon paying the people who emit a below average amount of carbon.
- mavhc 5y agoThe proceeds should be used to clean up the pollution, isn't that the whole point?