Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall
by ixtli on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @02:20PM
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Yes, with the caveat that it must be a large enough tax to make it cheaper to use cleaner energy sources. Otherwise it will go the way of regulatory fines: they become the cost of doing business and amount to a fixed line item on a budget rather than a factor that scales.
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Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall
by Retric on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @02:49PM
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Change happens at the margins. NASCAR for example is unlikely to care about even rather extreme carbon taxes, but even fairly small tiny taxes matter for electricity generation which is at a major tipping point.