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by Pepe1vo 990 days ago
How do taxes offset CO2? If anything they indirectly contribute to carbon emissions by way of fossil fuel subsidies.
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In the sense that Taylor Swift and Elon Musk probably pay more taxes that can be used to offset the CO2 they produce by flying and being efficient for their work.
I don’t think anyone here can produce that information, tax records are private, right? We’d also need to know what percentage of our taxes go to cleaning up carbon emissions, which I think is… pretty low?
Fossil fuel is not subsidized with tax money. It’s subsidized with tax discounts. That’s happening regardless of tax income because the federal government doesn’t run a balanced budget.