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by WalterBright 299 days ago
> but if you reduce pollution by 50%

What a terrible outcome! LOL

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Well yeah.. that’s my point.

If the tax works you have to keep continuously increasing it every year. At some point that becomes detrimental (I mean there are good reasons why we don’t ban the usage of fossil fuels entirely..)

So it’s not a reliable source of revenue