Cujo The key to KlimaDAO's success is to enable a functioning DCM, which requires the creation and retirement of carbon tokens. Until this point is reached, the DAO needs to stay operable. So, I understand that operating expenses need to be covered.
I remain skeptical regarding the overall effect of the 30% "fee" and its overall implications on the tokenomics. This is, because (a) this amount of KLIMA will likely be gradually released from the DAO to the market to cover the mentioned expenses and (b) when considering the original bonding process, it means that each carbon token leads to two times 30%, first when it was bonded and second when it's retired. Regarding your earlier mentioned argument that in the current process carbon tokens from the LPs are retired while the KLIMA supply remains the same, I assume this boils down to the question whether the LPs were deployed using carbon tokens from the treasury (which were bonded earlier and thus back KLIMA) or deployed from other funds, like the LBP, that were not used for KLIMA minting. I'm not sure, which one it is.
I see two alternatives to this approach that sound better to me, but would require more research (or perhaps can be easily refuted?):
1) Selling carbon tokens from the treasury at an actual premium, e.g. 5-10% above LP price. I don't know if that would work, but since on-chain carbon is so cheap at the moment, this might be worth looking into.
2) Requiring large retiring parties to buy and hold a stake of Klima. The idea here is that those parties, that use carbon from the treasury for retirements, support KlimaDAO until the DCM is established. In practice, this would be a fee similar to (1), but which is vested and gradually paid back over time.
For now, I hope that the proposal is indeed a step forward, as you're saying, and that the work continues to make KlimaDAO a successful project.