• SCB@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Climate activists want to, among other things, pass extremely unpopular carbon taxes as they’re the most serious effort toward cutting fossil fuels usage

    Extremely unpopular ideas that inevitably favor certain products are not always moves to sell those products, is the point

    It’s pretty reasonable to assume no one outside the UK knows much about Sunak’s history with handouts to friends.

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      Who are carbon taxes unpopular with? Aside from politicians?

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          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.

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          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.