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Originally Posted by sendler
Ummm, whom do you usually pay taxes too?
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Not some global cabal, that's for sure.
Carbon taxes are inherently regressive, and can only be tweaked into progressiveness with additional layers of bureaucracy. Then you get to the 'truth and reconciliation' part:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_...es_.28ITMOs.29
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I have comparatively cheap electricity at $0.13/ kWh compared to many other places in the world.
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You call that cheap? I pay $0.052/kWh. Soon that will be expensive.
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It is not cheaper to buy an electric car than a regular car.
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ROI?
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Originally Posted by Hersbird
Taxation to control behavior is poor government anyway... Necessity or improvement in the product will drive any change in the masses, not government.
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Politics follows culture. R. B. Fuller said "Reform the [metaphysical] environment, not the people."