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>Only if you are currently emitting more than the post-tax average emission. If you are already below average, you can emit the same amount and get paid. You n
by Aunche 4y ago
>Only if you are currently emitting more than the post-tax average emission. If you are already below average, you can emit the same amount and get paid.
You need to consider the downstream effects of the tax. The oil can only get taxed once, but the effects are compounded throughout the entire economy. For example, truck drivers would see dramatically increased expenses. For examples, truck drivers would have to pass on the cost of the fuel to transport freight. Meanwhile, other drivers will be forced to quit, which reduces our total freight throughput, which makes shipping even more expensive.
- Schroedingersat 4y agoThis is a description of the system working. Both outcomes are cheaper for the customer. Either the customer pays the retailer who pays the truck driver with the exact money the truck driver paid, or the customer does something cheaper and there is more money to go around because the customer is not paying for all the harms trucking does (including their kid's asthma bills and several dollars per gallon in road upkeep).
- lozenge 4y agoDrivers would quit? Why wouldn't they raise their prices? Truck transport is an irreplaceable step in every company's sale of goods to another person or company. Well, a couple might be able to switch to trains, but they'd be the minority. The only way demand for freight transport would go down is by reducing inefficient dead space in product packaging - ie exactly the type of efficiency improvement we would want from a tax.