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The problem with that is there are a lot of transaction costs to individuals selling their personal emissions.

Like the comment one higher up mentioned, one way to get around that and do effectively the same thing would be to split the revenue among citizens. This is what a bunch of economists have called for doing: https://www.econstatement.org/




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