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Re:Meta Bans Accounts Tracking Private Jets for Zuckerberg, ... by YetAnotherNick on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @06:58PM (#41919621)
The news title is such wrong. They meant billioniares who have share in greenhouse gas emitting companies have million times more than average shareholder. It's not related to emitting greenhouse gas.

The problem with carbon tax is the opposite. It would disproportionately tax poor higher. The carbon usage doesn't go up by 100x if the income increases by 100x.

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Re:Meta Bans Accounts Tracking Private Jets for Zuckerberg, ... by kelseyfrog on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @07:47PM (#41919946)
Except not all carbon taxes are equal. Taxing investments[1] in carbon emitting investments is such a proposal.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgA0UgSEDjI (2m22s)

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Re:Meta Bans Accounts Tracking Private Jets for Zuckerberg, ... by specialist on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @08:29AM (#41924333)
What's the alternative(s)?

IIRC carbon tax would be at point of use? So biggest "hard to transition" polluters like metal, concrete, electricity would pay most?

IIRC 2, most carbon tax advocates are also huge into investing in public transit, EVs, weatherization, heat pumps. In fact, BIL and IRA stipulate 40% apportionment. So doesn't that mitigate the regressiveness of a carbon tax?

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Re:Meta Bans Accounts Tracking Private Jets for Zuckerberg, ... by YetAnotherNick on Thursday October 24, 2024 @06:59AM (#41934278)
> So biggest "hard to transition" polluters like metal, concrete, electricity would pay most?

No, the people using metal, concrete, electricity would pay it. It's not like the profitability of industry goes down over tax.

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