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How do you handle import/export? Every pollution tax I've seen always gets bogged down in details when they have to account for other countries who don't have it.


Tax it on the border?


How much tax? What if they also have a pollution tax?

What if they don't, are all exports going to be more expensive now in comparison with countries without this tax?

What if they claim to have a pollution tax but are lying at the state level?

It gets really complicated really fast.

If pollution is taxed at the source how do you calculate how much of a refund to give when exporting? Probably no one can even calculate that for you.

And not giving a refund would destroy exports which is an obvious problem.




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