Carbon Tax or Cap and Trade
 

Which is better and why?

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Tax - administrative efficiency.

EDIT: plus it's more economically accurate. Say we cap CO2 emissions at 10 million tons/year. 10 million tons/year will be produced, even if the least-valuable CO2 use is less (or more) valuable than the marginal harm of that use. If it's a properly-set tax, only those CO2-producing activities that do more good than harm will be done.

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Wow. You must have to try pretty hard to get so many fallacies out of so few words.

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Wow. You must have to try pretty hard to get so many fallacies out of so few words.

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WTF? What fallacies does my question contain?

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Wow. You must have to try pretty hard to get so many fallacies out of so few words.

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WTF? What fallacies does my question contain?

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You left out option 3 - do nothing. It suggests a the "fallacy" that something must be done and here are the two options.

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Wow. You must have to try pretty hard to get so many fallacies out of so few words.

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WTF? What fallacies does my question contain?

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Well begging the question and false dichotomy for starters and we'll work from there.

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I didn't ask what the ideal solution was, I asked which was the better option.

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What if they're both bad? Then neither is "better", there's just "least bad".

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I didn't ask what the ideal solution was, I asked which was the better option.

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Well neither of them are "solutions" in that they won't do anything towards achieving their stated goals. Though they will spectacularly achieve their unstated goals so I guess you could call them solutions of a sort.

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What if they're both bad? Then neither is "better", there's just "least bad".

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OMFG, what is wrong with you people? Which is better and why. If you think they both suck then the better one would suck less. It is really not all that complicated.