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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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/ …
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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e.g. I could imagine a world where the expense of moving raw materials/products to the middle of the country causes consumption, standard of living & home values there to plummet, but the long-term impact, mitigation or accommodation is just super tough to model
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The thing is, the carbon prices people are talking about are not scary disruptive at the consumer level, like $30/ton adds 27 cents per gallon of gas. My nat gas bill would go up around 10%. Not nothing, but well within range of recent swings in price.
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