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If you tax the alternatives high enough, every consumer choice can become the preferred one!
by nisuni 8y ago
If you tax the alternatives high enough, every consumer choice can become the preferred one!
- netsharc 8y agoI think you just figured out how we can save the planet from catastrophic climate change... Meat? Tax it up. Plastic (especially single use)? Up. Flights? Up. Highspeed rail construction? More funding!
- sampo 8y agoFrance tried to increase tax on gasoline, and this happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_vests_movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_vests_movement I'd also guess that if any government in the US would increase gasoline taxes to European levels (more than doubling the gas prices), they would be quickly voted out in the next elections.
- netsharc 8y agoAh, yeah, true, I guess rich Norway's government has its population's support. Tragically, Merkel's policy of Austerity Uber Alles across the whole of EU has made the EU a hated institution from the left as well as from the right, and my feeling is this is also why the French government is hated by its population.
- ronsor 8y agoThe problem is in the US, people will become really upset if you try to tax those things.