Re:Americans aren't willing to pay to stop climate change
by tylerhou on Thursday July 01, 2021 @04:23PM
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You're right that you don't need to compensate for harms with such a tax (so my first sentence was imprecise). But I also don't see what's wrong with attempting to distribute (some of) the revenue in such a way to compensate for harms.
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Re:Americans aren't willing to pay to stop climate change
by _rpd on Thursday July 01, 2021 @05:14PM
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> But I also don't see what's wrong with attempting to distribute (some of) the revenue in such a way to compensate for harms.
It becomes a big political fight over how much of the revenue should be directed to social programs, so the tax policy changes every 4 years. A straight rebate gets wide support and taking it away becomes more and more unpopular as people get used to receiving it.
Re:Americans aren't willing to pay to stop climate change
by tmathmeyer on Thursday July 01, 2021 @06:17PM
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Because the attempt causes the laws to fail in referendum perhaps.