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> That's close to impossible to implement.

For a carbon tax, I think you only need to track imports, and domestic extraction of coal, petroleum, and natural gas.



„Only” track imports?


I think customs already tracks this. Smuggling oil and coal into the US at any meaningful scale seems very unlikely.


Right, but how do you track carbon in imported goods?


You don't. We already outsource all kinds of things (pollution, human rights violations) now.




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