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None of those links support your claim. > “This aversion to taxes in the U.S. is high and should not be underestimated,” Yeah, the environmental left really h
by ZeroGravitas 3y ago
None of those links support your claim.
> “This aversion to taxes in the U.S. is high and should not be underestimated,”
Yeah, the environmental left really hate taxes.
> AOC tweeted in 2019 that “carbon tax or cap-and-trade … could be part of a solution [but] they are inadequate as the whole answer
Not thinking something is the sole answer is not the same as not supporting it. If it was then I (and AOC) don't support any climate policy because we support at least 2.
Several of them talk about carbon taxes being voted down by the general population, so unless you think the "environmental left" have a majority support that doesn't matter.
I'm also sick of the yellow vest protest being mispreresented:
> The movement was initially motivated by rising crude oil and fuel prices, a high cost of living, and economic inequality. The movement argued that a disproportionate burden of taxation in France was falling on the working and middle classes,[71][72][73] especially in rural and peri-urban areas.[32][74] The protesters called for lower fuel taxes, a reintroduction of the solidarity tax on wealth, a minimum wage increase,[39] among other things.
People seem really keen to skip over all the inequality bits that fed into it, taking the sole lesson that "you can't tax carbon" which is only really true in the US. France is part of the EU's carbon trading scheme. It already taxes carbon.