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Originally Posted by GGG
If costs aren't passed on to the consumer then how would a carbon tax encourage consumers to make reduced carbon purchases. The entire point of a carbon tax is to make things more expensive. If people can't afford it they won't consume it. So the lower class needs subsidies to stay in housing, the middle class reduces diversionary spending, the upper middle class flies less.
And if everything is more expensive you need the wealthy to susidize the poor more as the wealthy can afford it. To argue that a carbon tax won't make everything more expensive is to argue that it won't work
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The problem is encouraging the consumer to eat less lettuce and buy fewer imported goods is a very indirect way to reduce carbon and one that reduces quality of living. If the carbon tax was truly revenue neutral then costs wouldn't need to be passed on and every business and individual would have an incentive to reduce direct energy costs while not being screwed over with increased taxes. This government completely missed that part of the equation.