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How about we tax everyone based on the acoustical emissions their machinery creates?

• RodgerTheGreat 4y ago
  Then you're just legally codifying that it's fine to create noise pollution if you're rich. Taxes do not solve negative externalities. The shitheads who intentionally modify their vehicles to be louder would most likely be perfectly willing to pay extra for everyone around them to know how much they spent to be loud.
  • closedloop129 4y ago
    Increase the taxes until you can be grateful that somebody spends that much just to be heard. Why should taxes not solve negative externalities? If they don't solve it then they are just too low.
  • ryukafalz 4y ago
    Do it like Finland and scale the fines based on income: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/in-finland-speeding-tickets-are-linked-to-your-income https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/in-finland-speeding-t...
• cagenut 4y ago
  I've spent a stupid amount of brain time on this. Pi-zero's with a couple microphones, cameras, 18650s and a solar cell in a super rugged sealed ABS belt-case. Strapped to telephone poles, capturing make/model/license-plate of anything that exceeds X decibels for Y minutes. Posting a top 10 offenders automatically to the city website. Autogenerating sound-map-reports to show what the 95th% locations and causes are to target effective enforcement of EXISTING laws. Sure I see the dystopic surveillance society part, but technically we already have that. Wouldn't it be nice to have quality of life benefits from it instead of just military and marketing uses. I want QoL SLOs.