• Chocrates@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Any suggestions on how we can actually make corporations pay for the carbon they emit if a carbon tax isn’t it?
    Doing nothing is what we have been doing and it isn’t working.

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      9 months ago

      Yeah, buy taxing them properly, and not just putting the tax on the individual

      • Jojo@lemm.ee
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        9 months ago

        How would you implement that? Like, how do you propose to impose a tax on the company that they can’t just pass along to the customer?

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          9 months ago

          I don’t know, maybe a LAW that forces companies to eat the cost?

          But hey even with our carbon tax, our Canadian companies are still making yearly record, so that’d good right?

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            9 months ago

            How would that law work? Unless you’re setting the price as a matter of law, how could you ever prove that a price rise was because of the tax and not “other economic factors”?

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              9 months ago

              I don’t know dude. I’m just a Canadian trying to get by.

              Maybe political leaders* just need to be good people and make laws that benefit us and not themselves and cooperations?

              Edit: added a word