• FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io
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    9 months ago

    but they will just raise the prices of end products to compensate for it.

    Not if you slap that bullshit down with regulations: Prevent them from pulling that kind of shit and when they find a way around it (because they will) you put a stop to that shit too.

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      9 months ago

      Yeah I can see the argument that implementing the regulatory framework necessary to monitor emissions would be more in our long term interests (and possibly cheaper in the long run) and better than hoping a broad tax will cause bad actors to act better.