At the moment, I think there needs to be way more sober thought on this and how widespread its effects are. They're rushing this through so they can basically show off to the UN. To me that's the wrong reason.
to me there is a term that a carbon tax out of all the environmental tax schemes is the fairest, but frankly to me, it has more of a hardened effect on the poor and middle class.
and why tax instead of finding a way to positively incentivize.
And why do a carbon tax that's basically going to vanish into the government coffers instead of actually having a definable plan about how your going to develop clean energy, or how your going to incentivize people to buy cleaner cars, or wear a sweater or whatever.
Don't just sit there and say, oh yeah, we'll come up with green energy jobs? Well what are those energy jobs, what are your plans, don't sit there and say, we're going to ram this through and think about the back half later.
Just so you can strut around at a conference and pound your keyboard and say, look I'm doing stuff.
What's the tax rebate going to be to the poor and people who are going to get hit with this, how big is it how does it work. Are they going to cut a check for a couple of hundred bucks to a family that's going to probably end up spending a thousand bucks or more a year due to a cost of living expense increase? How does that work?
Make a plan on both sides of it the income and the spending, present it and sell it.
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