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by ordx 1641 days ago
Import tax
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How do you know how much carbon the goods used?
A valid question. By keeping to raise that import tax until they accept doing a trustable carbon tax instead. Next up: how could you identify a trustable carbon tax? How could you do the tariff thing without all hell breaking loose both on the level of inter-government relations and in terms of plain old grassroots contraband snuggling?