The Constitutional Council of France has ruled that France's planned carbon tax is unconstitutional. Like the cap-and-tax proposals in the US Congress, the French law exempted the biggest polluters from the tax. (An impressive 93% of CO2 emissions were exempt.) The Council determined that these exemptions (a) "[ran] counter to the aim of fighting climate change" and (b) created "inequalities" that were unfair to those who did pay the tax. This apparently violates a some French efficacy and fairness requirements, making the tax unconstitutional.
One wonders what would happen to US laws if they were subjected to similar constitutional requirements.
One wonders what would happen to US laws if they were subjected to similar constitutional requirements.
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