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Re:IKEA buys 11,000 acres of U.S. forest to keep it from bei... by conjectures on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @08:34AM (#25928019)
Sorry, how does a government bring in tax revenue off of exports? Tarrifs are levied on imports rather than exports.

Sure they would make less money off corporation taxes with lower exports, but as those receipts are generally low anyway the tradeoff going to carbon tax would likely be favourable.

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Re:IKEA buys 11,000 acres of U.S. forest to keep it from bei... by TeMPOraL on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @08:41AM (#25928114)
Not directly off exports, but doing any kind of operation in a country involves government getting a cut of the profits via corporate taxes, laborers' income taxes, etc. All of these get smaller if the corporation sells less.
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