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What's right-wing about the Tax Foundation's definition? It's basically the same as the Wikipedia definition.

• ohgodplsno 4y ago
  It pretends that the costs will be borne by people outside of the transaction at all times, therefore continuing the right wing myth that any government intervention will increase costs for the final consumer.
  • prottog 4y ago
    Here is their definition: "A Pigouvian tax [...] is a tax on a market transaction that creates a negative externality, or an additional cost, borne by individuals not directly involved in the transaction." The "additional cost" is a clarification of the "negative externality", not a condemnation of the "tax on a market transaction". I suppose it's ambiguously constructed as a sentence and we can read into it what we will.