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Pretty much everything bought in the UK, for example, has a 20% tax. How is that a subsidy and how isn't it an example of what you are talking about?
by easytiger 8y ago
Pretty much everything bought in the UK, for example, has a 20% tax. How is that a subsidy and how isn't it an example of what you are talking about?
- TeMPOraL 8y agoDoes it accurately capture the environmental costs? I'd expect counting in emissions would make the tax more like 200% on everything.
- easytiger 8y agoExcept I also lay significant other taxes generated as economic benefit to the nation, including taxes specific to waste disposal as well as the now expanding pot of "general" taxation. Ultimately the greatest "burden" on environmental pressure is people having more children. Perhaps children should be taxed specific to their effectual "impact".
- yoz-y 8y agoExternalities must be accounted for individually. If the tax is flat then products that pollute more get effectively subsidized by those who pollute less.