Fair enough. I guess I’d say that making corporations and the wealthy pay their fair share to pay for UBI would actually shape the dynamics in workers’ favor, and UBI would be like a strike fund. But Rise Up Economics would require higher minimum wage & labor law reform too, methinks #unionsforall

It’s hard to imagine the workers taking over the means of production everywhere then running things with no domination at all and everyone treated equally. It would be a major jump forward to not need corporations and their jobs as desperately as we do now

And as a longtime believer in a universal basic income, I believe that a Carbon Fee is a good place to start. I think we’d need other revenue to fully fund a #UBI of $20K a year, such as a financial transactions tax, a millionaires tax, a 10% cut in defense spending, and yes even tariffs…

As a dad with two young kids, I owe it to them to do more to make life bearable for them and their potential children and grandchildren. I’m ready to get involved locally with Citizens Climate Lobby and other groups.

citizensclimatelobby.org

It’s time for all of us to make a New Year’s resolution to demand a tax on all fossil fuels and give that money to the people. Unless we start demanding bold, drastic action, we will never stop the planet from overheating.

I appreciate all of the proactive investment in green energy and the incentives in the IRA and infrastructure bills, but the climate crisis is serious and we need both carrots and sticks.

In fact, the way to get ahead financially in this scenario would be to cut back on your carbon footprint so you can pocket the dividend completely.

Taxing carbon is necessary to truly reduce greenhouse gases, but it has been a tough sell politically. I myself was praying for lower gas prices to help prevent Trump from winning the election.

But if the dividend means that there’s no extra cost to consumers, then I think it could work.

Here’s a study on it: Here’s a study on it: citizensclimatelobby.org/dividend-del...