> At the end of the day, any sort of tax is going to generate a dead weight loss. You say that like it's not the goal. Yes. People will do fewer polluting thi

> At the end of the day, any sort of tax is going to generate a dead weight loss. You say that like it's not the goal. Yes. People will do fewer polluting things. That's the point. The harms from the externalities vastly dwarf any total economic reduction.