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Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce
but just arbitrarily assigning a tax on sq ft doesn't address the issue.
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Doesn't it? Sure it may not be a direct address but if carbon output is created by energy consumption and if big homes take more energy to heat then by extension they produce more carbon. Tax the big homes more and people have less incentive to buy them (and developers less incentive to build them over smaller units due to lower demand).
I mean from an economic perspective if you want to effect change then what you want to do is increase incentives on what you want and disincentives on what you don't.