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Re:America’s losing battle against diabetes by nradov on Friday August 13, 2021 @12:47PM (#28171345)
Sensible carbon tax proposals are generally based on extraction, not consumption. There are only a limited number of companies mining coal and drilling oil. Those can be measured fairly easily.
Re:America’s losing battle against diabetes by willcipriano on Friday August 13, 2021 @12:53PM (#28171425)
The simplifies the problem technically and complicates it politically, at least in the US. Those hardest hit by a tax implemented that way are friendly with the elite of the US, so much so we have been at war with their enemies for decades.