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I got down-voted heavily on reddit for this idea, but I still think it's genius: Everybody gets a card with their yearly CO2 budget stored on it. For filling up

I got down-voted heavily on reddit for this idea, but I still think it's genius: Everybody gets a card with their yearly CO2 budget stored on it. For filling up your car at a gas station, but also for consuming electricity, taking a plane or buying stuff (except low CO2 food) a corresponding amount will be withdrawn from your card. The card is credited weekly, so you can't overspend too much of it. Your saved credits will decline slowly over time. Of course all has to be balanced considering socio-economic factors. The great thing is you can sell your credits to rich people, so it would even reward you for staying at home giving you sort of a minimal income.

jamil7 3y ago
Apart from causing all kinds of undesirable side effects and incentives, isn’t this more effectively done with a carbon tax?
- naranha 3y ago
  Not really, rich people don't care about carbon taxes.
  - jamil7 3y ago
    > rich people don't care about carbon taxes So? What does it have to do with rich people. Tax carbon emissions used to produce goods and services rather than some complicated per person credit system.
numbers_guy 3y ago
That would be nice and fair, but that would actually hurt rich people so it would not be implemented. Only laws that affect the poor get implemented.
- jaclaz 3y ago
  Naah, rich people will buy other (poor) people's allowance.