Quoteso you will need to purchase some carbon credits to cover your CO2 output for the flight.
The billionaire pays like everyone else. Carbon credits are elitist so the billionaire pays a carbon fee and dividend payment. The same as everyone else, no more no less. We shot the carbon credit guy last week. Good riddance to that capitalist worm. He had a plan to give yacht owners their carbon credits back, plus fifty percent. It seems growth in the private yacht industry needs help. Sales have been slow. We have to do some stimulating, all the billionaire butt says.
You look out the window and see a human drone car fly past as you sip your libation of choice. You pull out your UBI card with your fee and dividend payments on it. You order another.
You get your receipt from the credit card machine. You smile, there must be a lot of billionaires flying drone cars this month. The receipt shows your daily payout. Your balance is now higher than it was when you started drinking. The daily payment was $17.58. Higher than average. Since you arranged your lifestyle to be car free and you have moved where you can get around on a skateboard you do not buy gas. You have earned $2184.32 in six months by not driving.
The carbon credit guy was going to give all the money back to the billionaires in too-big-to-fail payments. They have a card for that. The economy had to be stimulated 'don't you know'. The carbon credit guy had everything set up to give their carbon credit money back. Now his 'DAVOS cards' won't be used. They will have zero balances for eternity.
Payments to the people. Payments to the people right on!
Seriously think about it. Money paid to a carbon credit. does not go to a particular place. The money can be diverted to a general fund where it will be used like any other tax. Being as corporations have to pay more for fuel, their lobbyists will see to it that corporate income tax is lowered to compensate. Carbon credits then become worthless.
Carbon fee and dividend has a double benefit. The money paid in changes consumption patterns, but so does the money paid out. Hugely. A big difference. When carbon credit money is paid out it does not do a damn thing. What do you do with carbon credit money. Build roads? Maybe a bridge to nowhere or two? And you have ruined the economy because the average Joe is going broke from paying for carbon credits.
Money from fee and dividend is different. This money stimulates the economy because average Joe gets the money. Enough to drive because average Joe has $2 to offset the $7 gasoline which would have been only $5 without carbon fee and dividend. Average Joe can still get to work and he still wants to. But all carbon credits did was charge $2 more for the gas. In the carbon credit system Joe puts a gun to his head and pulls the trigger because he can't make his life work on $7 gas. Not without the extra two bucks.
Carbon Fee and Dividend is night and day different from a carbon credit.