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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
Wow. Almost $900 a tonne. Such a deal. Wait...$867 per tonne.
We should just buy some of those Murray Edward's hyperloop carbon sucker doo-dads. Those are like $150 a ton.
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Saying it cost $900 is hyperbole like saying it cost $0. It has to be greater than zero as otherwise no behaviour change would occcur but it’s not $900 either as most of what happens is wealth transfer rather than just cost addition.
The question on how much it cost is much more complicated than just comparing the two headline numbers. You would need to answer did the cost of goods increase at a greater amount than the Carbon tax collected. Otherwise you are including how the tax was spent with is the tax a cost effective way of reducing Carbon.