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We could add taxes for cement that could be redirected to a carbon dividend.

There is a environmental cost that we are not paying when we build houses, and having a tax it's a fair way to incorporate this externalities. I don't trust the state with the money from this taxes so lets share them equally with the population.

We can do the same with aviation that would also reduce speculation of the house prices.

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Those are policy decisions, not the sort of "social" changes alluded to by the other users. Variations on these tax schemes are already enacted and are likely to be expanded. It's nothing new.

> I don't trust the state with the money from this taxes so lets share them equally with the population.

This doesn't make any sense. You want the State to tax you, presumably trusting them to do that, but you don't want the State to manage tax revenue? The point of tax revenue isn't just redistribution (you seem to be gesturing towards UBI), no one should have to explain that.

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