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Re:Kids Win the Right to Sue the US Government Over Climate ... by TheCoelacanth on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @10:46AM (#12967949)
> Poor people won't be able to afford a car or meat and they'll be the first ones to go bankrupt

A good solution to that would be to payout all of the proceeds of the carbon tax split evenly between everyone. That way people with below average carbon emissions will actually end up with more money than they had before, though they would still be incentivized to emit less.

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Re:Kids Win the Right to Sue the US Government Over Climate ... by WalterBright on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @01:37PM (#12969934)
The idea was to couple it with a sales tax reduction, and sales tax is usually characterized as regressive (disproportionately affecting the poor).
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