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European Citizens' Initiative: Taxing great wealth to finance the ecological and social transition
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this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2023
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Emissions are hard to track. We all know the answer is to tax fossil product extraction and import, with the idea that all fossile materials are bought to be burned or made into other things that are eventually burned.
Unsurprisingly the lobby groups hate that.
Canada has implemented a carbon tax. Maybe I've been living under a rock, but I haven't heard of it being particularly difficult to implement. As I understand it, the tax is implemented at the source, and then made revenue neutral by redistributing the revenue equally to all taxpayers.
If you burn more carbon, you pay more. If you are efficient, you get more money back than you paid in taxes.
Iβve heard good things. Also quite a bit of FUD. That means itβs working ;)