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Originally Posted by timun
Just purely on the basis of "does this tax functionally result in its underlying purpose?" I don't think it works. And it seems so do you:
I also get a bigger rebate—a far bigger rebate—than I pay in carbon taxes. Functionality its intended purpose —to get me to reduce my consumption — isn't working. The rebate more than offsets my consumption, and even if we didn't have a rebate the price still isn't high enough in the first place to affect my consumption decisions.
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Seems we mostly agree. We agree that the carbon tax doesn’t work.
Since it doesn’t work, I think it should be axed. You think it should be increased.