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Forgot your password?  Comment Re:How I stopped hating tax and
learned to love it (Score 1) 384  While overall this seems
reasonable there is still the question of how the government
proportions the money that it gives back? Does everyone get
x/population dollars back? Is it based on how much people paid
in taxes for dirty energy (which I think negates all benefits)?
Does it get redistributed proportionate to income? Or inversely
proportionate to income? In all cases you are going to have
people complaining about it being unfair (for some definition of
unfair).  The other issue is that unless all countries do the
same it will just drive energy consumption from places which
charge these tax-like-things to places that don't charge these
tax like things. From a global CO2 level perspective it doesn't
matter where it comes from, its all equally bad. (Generic
pollution isn't as global, but it does have a non-trivial global
component.)  Taxes should