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Re:Fact-check of viral climate misinformation quietly remove... by DuskStar on Monday July 20, 2020 @09:46AM (#23897746)
Isn't Cap+Trade just worse at everything (except optics) than an appropriate carbon tax?
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Re:Fact-check of viral climate misinformation quietly remove... by AstralStorm on Monday July 20, 2020 @10:12AM (#23898025)
Tax is not good enough either, because of immediate gaming of "tax breaks".

Directly mandate use of clean solutions. No trade, just cap and regulate. Hard deadlines and checks. Including on outsourced deployments to close that loophole.

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Re:Fact-check of viral climate misinformation quietly remove... by bryanlarsen on Monday July 20, 2020 @10:22AM (#23898114)
IMO, regulations are easier to gamify and capture than simple taxes are.
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Re:Fact-check of viral climate misinformation quietly remove... by adrianN on Monday July 20, 2020 @09:59AM (#23897886)
I don't see a big difference between the two, but I'm not an economist. Why do you think that a tax is strictly better?
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