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Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall by hayd on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @03:41AM (#20399923)
I am very uncomfortable pricing the poor out of things. That's the fundamental issue with sin taxes like this.
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Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall by isostatic on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @04:19AM (#20400109)
If you want to help the poor then redistribute wealth, don’t allow people to destroy the planet.

A carbon tax could be used for a UBI, or for electric car subsidies, or for negative income tax

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