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This would integrate cleanly with a reputation economy, where folks who get "bad reviews" cannot do business.
by jchook 5y ago
This would integrate cleanly with a reputation economy, where folks who get "bad reviews" cannot do business.
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- throwaway0a5e 5y agoOr folks who do business with "bad people" or spend their money on "bad things" find their transactions taxed more heavily. I think we can all picture what the moralizing pro-social left and religious right incarnations of that look like.
- Spivak 5y agoThis is supposed to be a commentary of the current state of affairs, yes? I mean we already have sin taxes. You don’t really need absolute control of a currency to moralize above-board business.
- mc32 5y agoBut now in extra strength and without loopholes.
- markzzerella 5y agoIt's currently in broad strokes, what's being enabled is micromanagement. You don't have enough calorie credits for that uber, better get hiking.[1] The global food council will also be prohibiting purchases of meat until your next birthday. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSvb_ZTYS6A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSvb_ZTYS6A
- bryanrasmussen 5y agobad people income tax +5%. raise slowly every year. all normal sin taxes still apply.
- nine_k 5y ago> sin taxes Do we have taxes on gluttony? sloth? lust? anger? I never noticed. What we have are taxes and other limitations on health-harming substances, like cigarettes, strong alcohol, and even on excessive sugar in certain places. This is not because the nicotine high, or inebriation, or feeling the sweetness are morally objectionable. This is because inhaled smoke, large quantities of alcohol, and large quantities of sugar lead to health problems, and treating these problems is expensive. It's more like a road tax, higher on heavy vehicles that damage roads faster.
- csunbird 5y agothe adult sector and the firearm sectors are already under pressure
- CryptoPunk 5y ago>>This is because inhaled smoke, large quantities of alcohol, and large quantities of sugar lead to health problems, and treating these problems is expensive. It's more like a road tax, higher on heavy vehicles that damage roads faster. This all assumes that the cost of medical expenses should be socialized.
- chaosite 5y agoThe cost of medical expenses is socialized anyway
- nine_k 5y agoExactly. The entire society had to shoulder the weight of the consequences of bad habits of some. Were the costs not socialized, there'd be a bit less of a point to tax cigarettes so much: you want to get lung cancer and you are ready to pay for it, go ahead and smoke three packs a day! But this is not how it works today.
- chaosite 5y agoNot my point. A phenomenon which affects a large fraction of a population has effects on the entirety of the population, ergo, it is socialized.
- unishark 5y agoSin taxes are opposed by the argument that they disproportionately affect poor people. If they could target them based on your income bracket or something, they might get a lot more popular.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoI think you're right but for the wrong reasons. IME few people genuinely care about the poor beyond micromanaging them for their own good or getting them to be out of sight out of mind. Sin taxes, generally speaking, are how the HN class incentivizes the landscaper class to behave more like them (to varying degrees and with various pretexts as needed per issue). Currently they are mostly limited by the middle class's ability to exempt itself. Finer targeting will enable them to go hog wild.
- karmasimida 5y agoExcept you are too big to be hold accountable.
- BuyMyBitcoins 5y agoYeah, good luck voting out your nation’s central bank. Even the politicians can’t.
- chroem- 5y agoChina has already implemented this system. Why not head over and try it out?