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I hope someday we'll just enact a revenue-neutral carbon tax/dividend and be done with all the performative nonsense.
by ericd 2y ago
I hope someday we'll just enact a revenue-neutral carbon tax/dividend and be done with all the performative nonsense.
- lazide 2y agoDon’t worry, we’ll find something similar to BS on.
- blackeyeblitzar 2y agoWhat do you mean by revenue neutral?
- ericd 2y agoAll money collected from the taxes is paid back out to the citizens, but on a per-capita basis. Due to how the distribution of wealth/spending/carbon footprint work, the majority of people would get back more than they paid in tax - it’s an extremely progressive tax. Flying a private jet or driving a motor yacht would become incredibly expensive even compared to their current cost, and would fund a lot of poorer people investing in decreasing their own bills via heat pumps, etc. It’d also help increase blue collar worker leverage and encourage onshoring/reindustrialization, because it’d become less attractive to ship goods from other countries.