Re:Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0
by ars on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @11:45PM
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How do you handle import/export? Every pollution tax I've seen always gets bogged down in details when they have to account for other countries who don't have it.
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Tax it on the border?
How much tax? What if they also have a pollution tax?
What if they don't, are all exports going to be more expensive now in comparison with countries without this tax?
What if they claim to have a pollution tax but are lying at the state level?
It gets really complicated really fast.
If pollution is taxed at the source how do you calculate how much of a refund to give when exporting? Probably no one can even calculate that for you.
And not giving a refund would destroy exports which is an obvious problem.