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carbon tax wouldn’t fix this, meat tax?
If it covered methane emissions on the basis of CO2e, it could.
A carbon tax has been politically really tough to pass in the US though.
yeah, would never pass federally. there’s got to be a state where this type of thing could get a foothold.
if it were me, if start in a place with a high gasoline tax, eliminate it, and replace it with a carbon tax that costs less.
now there is precedence. a foot in the door
The highest gas tax in the US is California, at $0.51/gallon. That’s not high at all.
I found 78¢ in CA. CA is a top three fuel consumer, so a carbon tax there would impact lots of folks. once someone does it, others may follow
That’s what happens when you add in sales taxes, which are applied to everything. It’s not going to happen so long as it looks like a backdoor way to increase the tax over time.
so many reasons why it won’t happen:
ultimately, one cannot make an omelette without cracking eggs
You need to get it past the WSPA first, and they know what it is.
Have you met a rich person who can’t avoid taxes? No but seriously even if every steak cost them $1000 it would not deter them because of the current wealth concentration.