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Essentially polluting businesses are externalizing some of their costs to the public purse (who eventually have to clean up after them) - these are not really t
by Taniwha 7y ago
Essentially polluting businesses are externalizing some of their costs to the public purse (who eventually have to clean up after them) - these are not really taxes, they are simply those externalized costs that they should have been paying in the first place. Really we should be criminalizing this behavior.
It's not any different that the city turning up on your front doorstep with the bags of rubbish you dumped on the side of the road and charging you for the cost of cleaning it up
- snagglegaggle 7y agoYes, I'm aware. But as this adds cost businesses are incentivized to move operations elsewhere where externalities are not taxed. That is why I asked "what is the enforcement mechanism in other countries?" If it is just applied internally it disadvantages the host country.