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Tax will not make it go away, only make it more expensive to people on a budget. You gotta buy food and at some point you don't care how it is packaged as you m
by varispeed 6y ago
Tax will not make it go away, only make it more expensive to people on a budget. You gotta buy food and at some point you don't care how it is packaged as you must eat.
- mikem170 6y agoBut is it fair to pass the externalities onto someone else - you get your prosciutto and someone else gets the mess? That's doesn't seem right to me. As opposed to an arbitrary tax discourage something I would whole-heartedly support that the cost of all products includes the cost of all externalities. Maybe people on a budget should wait in the deli line for their prosciutto, or buy something cheaper.
- varispeed 6y agoOnly fair is to ban non-degradable packaging altogether. Give companies a year or two of transitional period and then heavily fine companies not implementing the ban.
- bjarneh 6y ago> Tax will not make it go away, only make it more expensive to people on a budget This is a matter of the size of the tax. If a Snickers bar was slapped with a $30 plastic tax, you can be sure Snickers would not come wrapped in plastic tomorrow.
- varispeed 6y agoIt would come "from the back of the van". If there is a demand and supply vacuum (product not available at a price majority of people who wants it can afford), then you'll find brave people wanting to make extra money on the side and simply dealing these.