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That rewards those who can creatively find a way to shop at Amazon despite taxes more so than it rewards those who can creatively plant trees despite every othe
by mitchtbaum 9y ago
That rewards those who can creatively find a way to shop at Amazon despite taxes more so than it rewards those who can creatively plant trees despite every other hurdle to do so.
- Alex3917 9y agoI was proposing a chaga tax, not an Amazon tax. I was just using Amazon as an example of a retailer since they sell it.
- mitchtbaum 9y agoI thought chaga was a typo. Do you mean "chaga" the mushroom? Anyway, I meant my point about a key problem in general with trying to use taxes to fund important development projects.
- Alex3917 9y ago> Do you mean "chaga" the mushroom? Yes, because it only grows on birch trees, but harvesting the mushroom can damage the trees. That was sort of the point. :-)
- mitchtbaum 9y agoAh. So, who on Iceland cultivates chaga mushrooms? What ongoing efforts might they have that overlap with the birch foresters? (connecting the dots)
- Alex3917 9y agoIt can't be cultivated, it just grows wherever there are birch trees. So planting more birch would just mitigate any effects of over harvesting elsewhere, while increasing the global supply.