Just curious how we'd pay for roads, teachers, etc?
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We would pay for teachers and roads with our own money? I don’t have much money, and others have a great deal. What if others don’t pay? What if we don’t agree?
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I find this website beyond irritating a carbon tax will create jobs how exactly will this work ? etc
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Could be a disincentive for the legislature with respect to clean energy since that would decrease revenues from the carbon price.
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Raising the cost of energy has the effect of raising the costs of everything else. Environment scientists and activists will never find popular support for their policies until they find a way to enact protectionist policies without further impoverishing the poor.
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Firstly, carbon tax only increases the costs of some energy. Carbon taxes in Canada are revenue neutral, so they lead to tax cuts for other things. This allows a free market to deal with the environmental impact by incorporating the hidden costs of fossil fuels.
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Anything which increases the overhead and operating costs for any business ultimately is passed off to the consumer in the form of higher prices. If you affect the profits of companies, then consumers pay for that in the form of an indirect tax.
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Right, but it ought to cost more, because hidden costs (climate change) cost consumers, indirectly, not outright when they buy the good (we spend more on insurance, disturbance prevention, etc). It can be cost neutral, if the tax comes with tax breaks or subsidies elsewhere.
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"....but it ought to cost more...." Take that phrase and try to sell it to hurting working class people who have to decide between buying dinner for the next week or getting their children new shoes to replace the ones with holes in them.
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They quickly learn to equate any argument for environmentalism with higher prices and then resist any attempt to even listen to you. It also makes them prey to people who would sell them on fake science.
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As for tax breaks and tax subsidies, all you've done is take money from taxpayers and then tried to give their own money back to them with caveats and fanfare. Govt: "Know that money we stole from your paycheck at gunpoint? We'll give it back to you if you do what we say!"
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It's never cost neutral. Ever. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
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If they can’t steal the money one way, the want another way into the pockets? Sounds like politicians. And they’re seriously saying that needing 10s of thousands more to do a job already being done is “good for the economy”? That’s the diametric opposite of good for the economy.
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I think you might be quite stunned by the results of the REMI studies, one of which can be found here: http://www.remi.com/topics-and-studies/modeling-the-economic-demographic-and-climate-impact-of-a-carbon-tax-in-massachusetts/ …
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Not stunned in the least that a committee desperate to find results that supported their deeply held beliefs managed to pay someone to find such results. I would be just as unstunned to discover that Koch Industries has funded research to find the exact opposite.
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