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Behind the billionaire climate tax | One economist explains why taxing the rich and paying the poor actually has a chance of becoming a reality. (heated.world)
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[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 months ago

Not sure what this has to do with climate change aside from potentially make it worse ? Seems it would increase emsisions and GDP as "the poor" will spend it.

We need to all emit like the poor do now. I'd suggest instead they spend it on good quality free PT and AT (cycling infrastructure etc) so the poor don't need a car for example, immensely improving their lives and lowering emissions, pollution and heath care costs..

With less roads and parking they can infill with smaller, well insulated cheaper medium density housing, and trees and bushes, making many homes cheaper to live in as they don't need as much energy, this immensely improves the lives of the poor and reduces emsisions.

Giving "poor people" more money within the orthodox neo-liberal shit show will make anything climate or enviormentally adjacent worse. Taking it alll off the rich will help in spades but this is tokenism that won't help with emissions or biodiversity loss or plastic use etc.

That asdie, The Australian Green party went into the last federal election with a policy to tax the very wealthy much more but voters soundly rejected such policies, 75% voted againt it. I voted in the minority for it.