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If the companies are creating products that do health/environmental damage that the taxpayers have to fix, how is it silly? Say a given Toyota does $500 worth o
by aerovistae 11y ago
If the companies are creating products that do health/environmental damage that the taxpayers have to fix, how is it silly? Say a given Toyota does $500 worth of environmental damage in its lifetime, and the government pays to repair it. Is that not a $500 subsidy, a fee handled by taxpayers which the responsible party (Toyota) is somehow permitted to ignore?
- refurb 11y agoIf the companies are creating products that do health/environmental damage that the taxpayers have to fix, how is it silly? A few reasons why it's silly. You can't accurately measure it, so it's a somewhat useless metric. Also, everything is interdependent if you look at it that way. Rich people are being subsidized by landlords due to rent control! Alcohol companies are being subsidized because they don't pay for crashes caused by drunk drivers. It goes on and on and it doesn't add much value.