> 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?

	▲	xnx 8 months ago \| parent [-]
		You don't. We already outsource all kinds of things (pollution, human rights violations) now.