If you had a carbon tax, you'd have less cars and more bicycles, more people getting around on foot and by public transport.
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Why not put a tax on carbon emissions. It would raise a lot of money, it would reduce the environmental damages in the future, it would solve so many problems, and it would be a much more constructive thing to do than to think about raising the income tax.
For the U.S., I think we should have a carbon tax, for environmental reasons.
Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
If the goal is to lower emissions, that's disconnected to most people. If the goal is to save taxpayers' money, now the public has some interest.
Many have criticized a federal carbon tax, saying that it would increase energy costs. Some continue to oppose it even when that revenue would be used to reduce other taxes in what's known as a tax swap.
Society has to get a grip and put a tax on carbon. Of course, there is much that flows from that, and it is a complex situation. The small details of something such as climate change are political and social, and they are a lot about fairness and how we rebalance towards a fairer society.
Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.
I'm anti-tax, but I'm pro-carbon tax.
Even if every major government were to slap huge taxes on carbon fuels - which is not going to happen - it wouldn't do much to halt climate change any time soon. What it would do is cost us hundreds of billions - if not trillions - of dollars, because alternative energy technologies are not yet ready to take up the slack.
Nothing could be more regressive than carbon taxes.