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I'd love you to go into more detail with this proposal. How would taxing ads be different than just taxing corporations?
by chrislloyd 9y ago
I'd love you to go into more detail with this proposal. How would taxing ads be different than just taxing corporations?
- maxxxxx 9y agoI like the idea. Ads could be treated as pollution.
- tzahola 9y agoAds are pollution. Information pollution.
- wutbrodo 9y ago> How would taxing ads be different than just taxing corporations? Without commenting on the wisdom or relevance of the proposal, this seems really simple. Taxing activities disincentivizes them, so you could expect a tax on a specific activity to have the first order effect of reducing that activity. Tldr: lower advertising budgets
- exDM69 9y agoThe corporations in question pay very little taxes in the first place, getting them to pay their fair share would be nice. But I don't think that would change their negative influence on the society.
- mlinksva 9y agoTwo basic approaches, not mutually exclusive: 1) make advertising expenditure non-deductible or weaker version treat as investment, make deduction multi-year reducing NPV 2) directly tax ad revenue, strength depends on rate. My motivation is treating ads as mental pollution and force for centralization and monopoly, not preventing election manipulation. Complaints abut the latter are nothing but extreme hypocrisy coming from the US.