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Re:Permissionless innovation by maxxxxx on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @08:22PM (#15597939)
" levying a carbon/pollutant tax such that the tax generates sufficient revenue to offset the damage"

Who determines what the damage is and who pays for the people who make the determination?

Re:Permissionless innovation by lend000 on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @08:28PM (#15597965)
I quickly found this link which quotes $1000/ton of CO2:

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/06/switzerland-giant-new...

At some point, the government either needs to generate bids for a contract in the free market (subject to the cronyism of government officials) or do it in-house (inefficient). We need a government, so every implementation of any policy you can think of can potentially suffer from a combination of these two factors -- I hardly see that as a hole in this approach.

> who pays for the people who make the determination?

China and the Fed, obviously -- same as now. If you are trying to shoot down these ideas because you don't think I believe in any taxation, you're really walking into a trap here. The quoted cost for undoing damage clearly takes into account bureaucratic / managerial overhead, as would any contract.