cap & trade

A "cap and trade" system involves government caps / limits on industry emmissions of greenhouse gases and other environmental pollutants; permits to emit within these limits would be sold to companies by the government. If plant or company's emissions fall below these caps, they can swap/sell among themselves the permits for the balance of the unused allotment to other companies / industries who exceed their limits. As these limits are reduced over time, their cost to industry would be increased. The goal of this system is to incentivize industry to find less expensive ways to reduce emissions of pollutants.

Opponents of cap-and-trade argue that this will raise the cost of living for Americans because most of the these higher costs of doing business would be passed on to consumers. The full magnitude of these costs in the form of higher prices for various commodities and the resulting decline in the standard of living, and alternatives, such as the carbon tax, have not been fully or properly debated.

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