>car fuel levy, tax on air tickets.
Non of which would have done anything but raise prices for the aforementioned, it was just a swiss politicians hustle to try and tax citizens masqueraded as "climate measures".
Non of which would have done anything but raise prices for the aforementioned, it was just a swiss politicians hustle to try and tax citizens masqueraded as "climate measures".
.. which is the entire point? The increase in prices internalizes the cost of pollution. Putting a price on carbon is the most straightforward and economically sensible way to incentivize reducing emissions.
One key argument of opponents of the proposed law was indeed that it would have resulted in an overall tax increase, with a lot of money being channelled into a dedicated "green innovation fund", outside of regular parliamentary control.
Unsurprising, many MPs on the pro side were affiliated with the "clean tech" and construction industries, who would have received most of that money.
Wouldn't it directly cause more people to buy EVs, and wouldn't it directly cause less people to fly overseas?
ICE cars have direct substitutes and holidays aren't totally price inelastic.
China's additional pollution in the last years is more than what the entire west has reduces in the same time. And we will not go back in time and stop flying and stop being mobile. The only way forward is trough superior tech which if it actually is superiors will also be cheaper and replace the old tech on its own. No artificial incentives needed. Instead we should pour that money into funding research because researching while being profitable simply takes way way longer to achieve the same.