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Taxing the crap out of anything to fix a problem means taking money from one group of people, losing 80% to gov bureaucracy, and giving the remaining 20% to som
by unnamed76ri 4y ago
Taxing the crap out of anything to fix a problem means taking money from one group of people, losing 80% to gov bureaucracy, and giving the remaining 20% to someone else. Likely a campaign donor.
When will people recognize that government is really really bad at solving problems. How is that war on drugs going anyway?
- rjbwork 4y agoUnfortunately, taxes and regulations seem to be the only mechanisms we have to price externalities into economic activity.
- alistairSH 4y agoHow else would you regulate negative externalities? The goal is to build the externality into the price, which then gives incentive to move to less harmful packaging, etc. Spending any revenue on something useful is a secondary goal here. The war on drugs is a completely different situation.