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Taxing the use of something is different from subsidizing the production of that thing and are meant to encourage far different behaviors.
by freehunter 8y ago
Taxing the use of something is different from subsidizing the production of that thing and are meant to encourage far different behaviors.
- munk-a 8y agoNo, the tax would end up eventually hurting their profit margins while the subsidies increase those margins. They encourage different short term effects but they're both contributing to the same effect. All that said, the subsidies in this case far outweighed the effect the tax would have had.