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Originally Posted by Tinordi
Ultimately we need policy to reduce GHG emissions. The carbon tax is attractive because it's proven that it's the most efficient way to reduce emissions with the broadest coverage to our economy. It isn't a "cash-grab." It's an attempt to build in the costs of pollution to get socially optimal levels of consumption for fossil fuels. The alternatives to the carbon tax are all much worse like command and control regulation (higher costs) or subsidies (ineffective and expensive).
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I was always taught cap-and-trade was a bit more effective. Granted, this was given to me by professors...and they have an agenda of their own. And it'll also likely turn into small companies finding ways to work with fewer emissions and bigger companies buying more space.