If a carbon tax raised prices for meat, how much of an increase would be costly enough (to you personally or to populations you care about, e.g. lower income families) that you would be uncomfortable supporting it?
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Could you do carbon tax brackets? Like your percentage is different based on your income.
The tax is imposed at the level of the producer — essentially a reverse-subsidy that'd raise prices. The government has no standing to mandate that grocery stores sel products on a sliding scale
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Give the money right back to the people. 2/3rds of people get more back than they pay. https://citizensclimatelobby.org/basics-carbon-fee-dividend/ …
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I tentatively think this would be the only sensible way to do it, contingent on administrative costs being kept within reason. I do think knock-on effects, both positive and negative, are hard to anticipate; the economics of living further from ports & food production would swing
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