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Originally Posted by milomilo
A quota system is functionally the same as a carbon price, only what you're proposing is for cattle only. Do you truly not understand this? If you're ok with carbon pricing for cows, why are you not ok with carbon pricing for things that will cost less to tax?
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Because in the cause of cattle you can distribute them out equally.
So that smaller farms actually have increased revenue as the artificial shortage creates a higher sale price per cow.
The only way this could compare with Carbon would be if they carbon tax applied only to the wealthy and people in lower tax brackets actually got tax free gas.
Regardless this is an Apples to Testicles comparison.
People can source protein from other sources than beef.
Read meat isn't even that healthy(relevant when we have free healtcare) and poultry prices are quite competitive.
No one is hurt other than large scale slaughter houses(and I suppose burger king).
Carbon taxes either do nothing or they
A) Funnel money into the hands of the already well off tech industry.
B) Annihilates heavy industry forcing even more unwilling participants into the service class.
C) Or forces people on the bottom of the economic spectrum to be even more broke.