Re:Kosovo pulls plug on energy-guzzling Bitcoin miners
by scotty79 on Sunday January 16, 2022 @07:14AM
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Taxes infom the market about externalities.
Taxing carbon emission significantly sends price signal to every actor in the market that uses products and services that have carbon emission upstream to maybe reduce usage of such products and services or switch to another.
Re:Kosovo pulls plug on energy-guzzling Bitcoin miners
by ogogmad on Sunday January 16, 2022 @07:16AM
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Governments have a role in taxing negative externalities. What alternative do libertarians like you have? Forgetting whether or not you believe in climate change, if it does indeed exist as a possibility, what would libertarians like you do about it?
Your comment is blatant virtue signalling -- it's taking a moral high ground without providing any alternatives.
[edit] At least you've provided an alternative now: nuclear energy. Then again, you only did it when pushed to.
Which they will use as an excuse for more taxes.
See the pattern?
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This comment has two further comments, both of which ask questions. But since this comment is heavily downvoted, I cannot reply to the replies to answer the questions.
In short: no such thing as “negative externalities”, thats just make-believe to whitewash oppression and poverty creation. Taxes are not a market signal by definition. Its interesting how blithely people accept using violence to force others to comply with their wishes.
If you really wanted to reduce CO2 you would support safe clean nuclear. But CO2 isnt causing warming- its historically low, earth started at %100 CO2. Plants evolved to need levels 5 times higher than present. Increased CO2 would improve the environment. We had an ICE AGE at 10 times higher CO2 then now. ETC.
Unfortunately Government propaganda has replace science education.