(10-26-2019, 12:03 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(10-26-2019, 11:12 AM)mikesez Wrote: There are socialists and anarchists who want to destroy our way of life and destroy the wealthiest society ever created.
Some of them are using climate change to push their agenda.
Just like they use homeless people to push their agenda.
Just like they use dilapidated towns with closed down factories and Superfund sites to push their agenda.
But none of these things stop being factual just because bad people want to discuss them.  
There are dilapidated ghettoes.  There are homeless people.  And there is climate change.

Our society will still work fundamentally the same way if we reduce income and payroll taxes and replace them with a carbon tax.  Note that the true socialists out there are more likely to advocate for state takeover of energy companies as their solution.

What, in your opinion, are the negative implications of a Carbon Tax?

The main down side is that it is not predictable.
We know that a carbon tax will cause people to use less fossil fuel, but how much less?

The carbon tax could be more successful than predicted in getting people to switch away from fossil fuel. but in that case it will be less successful than predicted at bringing revenue into the government.

So it'll have to be adjusted every 5 years or so. 

Some environmentalist activists want to be able to predict and budget how much carbon dioxide we will emit. a cap and trade scheme sort of allows you to do that, but a carbon tax does not. 

another downside worth mentioning is that part of any carbon tax is a tariff on countries that do not have their own carbon tax. those countries will deploy all sorts of lobbyist to try to get their tariff reduced.  Our government will try to figure out what their tariff should be based on what their power mix is, and they will try to deceive us about their power mix.

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