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Originally Posted by screener
Here's a study showing relative impact on the environment by income distribution in Canada. a couple of quick notes, the highest income 10% has an impact 2.5 times the lowest income 10%.
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/doc..._By_Income.pdf
The lowest income 10 % has 3 times the average impact in China.
Canada has among the highest ecological impacts in the world. At 7.6 hectares per capita, Canada’s ecological footprint is the third largest in the world — tied with Finland and following the United States and the United Arab Emirates as the worst offenders.
Perhaps we should be looking at a per capita/per income method of paying for global warming and other environmental impacts. The other aspect is sectoral impacts with large energy-resource using industry in a category by itself. |
Is it that the guys earning more are at fault. They are earning more because they are working hard for it.
Hence instead of putting tax on basis of income, I suggest that tax should be introduced at source of GHG emitting actions itself, like purchase of gasoline, electricity, cement and similar stuff.
This way whoever buys something pays the tax while others can relax.