That’s a matter of proper implementation. Tax & dividend! Distribute the tax revenue to the population per capita.
That means:
If your emissions are average, you pay/earn net zero.
If you emit more than average, you pay. This will affect mostly rich people, since emissions strongly correlate with available money.
If you emit less than average, you net earn. This effectively rewards people with money gained for emissions prevented.
Since money is distributed unequally in society, this means most people will have to pay less in such a system.
The beautiful thing is, the financial incentive to emit less remains even for people who gain more than they pay. It’s also an incentive both for buyers and sellers, researchers and investors.
Who are carbon taxes unpopular with? Aside from politicians?
The people that have to pay them, I assume
People who don’t understand we need to break our addiction to petroleum based fuel. Also People who make money off of petroleum based products.
I think you overestimate the size of these two groups. The group of people who care more about their own financials is likely a lot larger.
Don’t care thier fucking size.
I care how loud these choads are and how many they might sway.
Because the number of people voting for something is irrelevant? Yeah, makes sense.
Not what I was saying.
Then you’re missing the point to begin with.
And you don’t have a good one.
Good luck eating and drinking money.
I never said that I agreed with them.
That’s a matter of proper implementation. Tax & dividend! Distribute the tax revenue to the population per capita.
That means:
Since money is distributed unequally in society, this means most people will have to pay less in such a system.
The beautiful thing is, the financial incentive to emit less remains even for people who gain more than they pay. It’s also an incentive both for buyers and sellers, researchers and investors.