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Luxury Carbon Taxes: Dressing Up Wealth Redistribution in Green?
5 hours ago Charles Rotter 12 Comments
Another day and another piece of social engineering by climate “researchers”.

Luxury focused carbon taxes
The intersection of environmental policy and economic fairness is the latest battleground in the quest for sustainable futures. Recently, a study published in the One Earth journal has reignited the debate. Its proposition? Luxury carbon taxes. The STATED goal is apparently clear:

“Taxing luxury carbon emissions at a higher rate,”

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/994783
so that we can achieve a purported

“75% of the emissions reduction needed to reach the Paris Agreement’s goal.”

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/994783
However, a close examination of this proposal reveals that this might not be about carbon emissions or environmental sustainability at all, but about wealth redistribution masked as climate action.

Luxury Carbon Taxes: A New Face of Wealth Redistribution?

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/11/luxury-carbon-taxes-dressing-up-wealth-redistribution-in-green/
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