Everybody wants a solution to global warming, but too few want to pay the cost. But what if the cost could be fully rebated to the public? Well, it can. I think that the "fully rebated carbon tax" is likely to have the widest possible appeal as a means of reducing carbon emissions.
Now, many folks understand that a tax on carbon emissions has a lot of very nice features: it makes us all take global warming into account when we produce & consume energy, transportation and other goods. It appeals to a wide swath of "thoughtful" public opinion, because it avoids heavy-handed regulation. But even Al Gore has a tendency to whisper his support for it, because everybody hates taxes.
But what if the tax could be fully rebated?
Won't work? I'll show you how on the flip.
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