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Originally Posted by crazy_eoj
Taxes always are an impediment to jobs, by their very nature they remove output from the most productive parts of the economy into less productive areas.
When you lose productivity, you lose jobs.
It's really quite obvious at a basic level.
If it wasn't that way, we could just have 100% taxes and let the government create jobs for everyone. And Stalin tried real hard at that, but it really doesn't work in the end.
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Thanks for the economics lesson Hayek.
What I was asking was where were the studies saying that carbon taxes would lead to massive job losses? And actually, there's a thing called the double dividend when evaluating a carbon tax.
If you tax bad behaviour (pollution) and reduce taxes on good behavior (employment - payroll taxes) then you could theoretically get further ahead than you were before when the environmental benefits are quantified in some way.
The point is that it just isn't cut and dry, taxes = job losses = everyone worse off. There's really legitimate public policy reasons to adopt this stuff.
Hell even Alberta has a $5 per tonne carbon price.