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kensai · 2023-10-01 14:52:48

It would be equally important to make a graph of how much CO2 they offset by paying taxes, even if only theoretically.

bee_rider | karma 16765 | avg karma 2.35 · | 2023-10-01 15:36:16

I don’t think anyone here can produce that information, tax records are private, right? We’d also need to know what percentage of our taxes go to cleaning up carbon emissions, which I think is… pretty low?

mkesper | karma 3161 | avg karma 2.71 · | 2023-11-30 10:20:37

CO² tax would likely be effective here.

5mv2 | karma 52 | avg karma 1.58 · | 2023-07-27 15:47:48

Interesting. Would CO2 taxes fix that?

Pepe1vo | karma 406 | avg karma 5.72 · | 2023-10-01 15:04:47

How do taxes offset CO2? If anything they indirectly contribute to carbon emissions by way of fossil fuel subsidies.

fsflover | karma 8037 | avg karma 1.36 · | 2021-05-18 17:05:59+00:00

CO2 tax.

bequanna | karma 1773 | avg karma 1.43 · | 2021-07-10 16:48:08+00:00

If you want to go down this road you should be looking at % of income spent on carbon taxes.

Maybe some “carbon allowance” would then be afforded so the lower income people that qualify could claim a deduction on their personal income tax return.

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jawarner | karma 348 | avg karma 1.83 · | 2017-04-17 19:41:58

A border adjustment tax accounting for the CO2 used in production abroad would balance out this problem.

MisterBastahrd | karma 2490 | avg karma 0.85 · | 2017-06-01 16:09:42+00:00

Well, for one, it would give companies the ability to quantify carbon tax credits in a tangible manner.

benhurmarcel | karma 2810 | avg karma 1.75 · | 2019-11-21 22:48:29+00:00

A real CO2 tax would need to compute that number for every imported good or service.

willcipriano | karma 10565 | avg karma 2.61 · | 2021-08-13 11:37:40

If the intention is to implement a carbon tax, I see no way of doing so without some relatively accurate measure of carbon output. Without that you are taxing not carbon but instead something else.

mr_mitm | karma 2572 | avg karma 3.03 · | 2023-04-12 04:41:26

A CO2 tax would solve this

throwaway51081 | karma 5 | avg karma 0.5 · | 2024-05-22 19:37:06

There is a direct relationship between fuel usage and carbon dioxide. It's very simple to tax fairly.

emphatizer2000 | karma -27 | avg karma -1.08 · | 2021-01-21 10:03:45

CO2 taxes

sharemywin | karma 5432 | avg karma 0.74 · | 2018-08-15 14:12:00+00:00

seems like a carbon tax/credit would help.

danbolt | karma 2777 | avg karma 2.58 · | 2020-08-15 04:04:11+00:00

I'm reading the article, and one of the researchers (Dinara Millington) suggests increasing the Carbon Taxes to make them more effective.

icebraining | karma 48925 | avg karma 2.14 · | 2019-11-12 03:10:19

Carbon taxes sounds reasonable, since you can measure the carbon emitted :)

cryptos | karma 1628 | avg karma 3.0 · | 2019-07-26 04:43:12

I wonder if a CO2 tax would fix that, too...

wool_gather | karma 2993 | avg karma 2.31 · | 2019-12-15 18:07:00+00:00

> Assuming you can track CO2 emissions

Also assuming that you meaningfully enforce violations. Although this is also a problem for a tax.

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OneOneOneOne | karma 139 | avg karma 1.28 · | 2017-05-08 15:12:16+00:00

> the carbon tax can either substitute other taxes or the revenue from it can be returned to tax-payers in some form

I would be surprised if carbon tax payments offset some other taxes.

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