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The carbon tax has its critics β€” do any of them have better ideas? (www.cbc.ca)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

but they will just raise the prices of end products to compensate for it.

Not if you slap that bullshit down with regulations: Prevent them from pulling that kind of shit and when they find a way around it (because they will) you put a stop to that shit too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah I can see the argument that implementing the regulatory framework necessary to monitor emissions would be more in our long term interests (and possibly cheaper in the long run) and better than hoping a broad tax will cause bad actors to act better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

It needs to be comprehensive or it won't work but there are too many rich assholes controlling greedy politicians