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If the tax was placed as a fixed cost per pound of cattle product, regardless if its prime steak or pink goo, it would be a hard tax to game: In the end all mea
by SubiculumCode 9y ago
If the tax was placed as a fixed cost per pound of cattle product, regardless if its prime steak or pink goo, it would be a hard tax to game: In the end all meat products are packaged and a weight placed on it.
- hackeraccount 9y agoThat might create odd effects. Consider. What if, right now, cows are raised using feed that's a inedible cast off of food grown for human consumption. If you tax all meat equally the incentive to do that would be reduced. You might as well raise cows on food that is fit for human consumption if it marginally improves the quality of the cow because you're paying the same tax either way.