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It doesn't seem politically possible to even ask people to limit their consumption, and enforcement would be suicidal to governance. We've seen what it looks li
by lotyrin 6y ago
It doesn't seem politically possible to even ask people to limit their consumption, and enforcement would be suicidal to governance. We've seen what it looks like when you try: that it was not possible to ask people just to be polite and responsible regarding the epidemic -- they were practically ready to revolt instead of observe simple precautionary measures.
Can you imagine if there were across-the-board actual enforcement in place for any of those measures, what it would have looked like? And that was an acute event, not something that's slowly boiling the frog.
- lanternfish 6y agoWe already tax things that we don't want people to buy, this isn't fundamentally different.
- lotyrin 6y agoYeah, but on that front, the parts of the market we need to tax have regulatory capture.