Re:Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
by IngoBlechschmid on Monday August 09, 2021 @01:13PM
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The earnings of the CO2 tax could be equally distributed to all citizens on a monthly basis. That way, while consumer prices would increase, all those citizens who contribute below average to the country's CO2 emissions (and those are the vast majority and especially includes people who are poor) would, in sum, have more money available than before.
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Re:Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
by delusional on Monday August 09, 2021 @02:48PM
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There's no guarantee that a "CO2 tax" would be equally distributed itself. For an extreme case, imagine if we put a universal CO2 tax on all products. A producer might chose to slash the price of luxury goods, instead funneling the cost to lower end options. That would cause the prices the poor pay to rise more than the you subsidy would offset.
Distributing the cost equally to the producer doesn't mean they carry over equally to consumer cost.