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Re:Carbon Capture and Storage is necessary to keep global wa... by wott on Sunday January 26, 2020 @10:35AM (#22152526)
> The taxation should be revenue neutral, that is every cent gained is redistributed to the people,

It definitely should not, for almost every such cent is unavoidably re-used in buying something else (and thus keeps on feeding the crazy economic machine), which ends up in energy consumption and carbon emission in a way or another.

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Re:Carbon Capture and Storage is necessary to keep global wa... by Swenrekcah on Sunday January 26, 2020 @11:52AM (#22153064)
Not nessicarily. If the amounts turn out to be so large as to possibly increase consumption even more, well then some percentage of people might just reduce their work by a bit and spend more time with their family or do self-sustaining things.

But a large part of why everyone should be demanding a revenue neutral carbon tax is because it neutralizes any objection that is justified by any version of a small-government theory.

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