In recent weeks, various parties and organisations have called for a suspension or delay of the most important component of an eco-social tax reform: the tax on climate-damaging CO2 emissions and the reimbursement of revenues to all households as a climate bonus.
Measures to socially cushion the impact of high energy prices and inflationary pressure are undoubtedly urgently needed from a humanitarian as well as a social and economic science perspective. However, suspending this climate policy measure in response to high energy prices and inflation does not contribute to this. This is based on three fundamental misunderstandings...
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