Climate

Is it fair for governments to tax products with high carbon footprints?

For

It encourages people and companies to reduce pollution.

Against

It makes everyday items more expensive for regular people.

Anonymous excerpts, translated where noted.

For

  • This will force the first company to change their method, because otherwise their income will drop.
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  • If the revenue from a carbon tax is returned to households as an equitable dividend, most people come out ahead, especially the poor.
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Against

  • Each company that has to pay Carbon tax will pass on to its customers the price it has to pay
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  • All it does is makes things more expensive for the consumer.
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