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This is what tariffs do well. When you tax a local manufacturer, you impose an equal tariff on imports.
by danielheath 2y ago
This is what tariffs do well. When you tax a local manufacturer, you impose an equal tariff on imports.
- seventhtiger 2y agoThat only makes it fair within your country, but it doesn't remove the self-crippling effects.
- david-gpu 2y agoThat is why international agreements like the Montreal Protocol are so important.
- revscat 2y agoThat was 40 years ago. In the interim capitalism has won and democracy is failing. Agreements like Montreal will never happen again, at least not in our lifetimes. Look no further than the failure of the Paris Agreement and the ascent of authoritarianism worldwide. No one cares about environmental agreements, certainly not those in the rarified airs of billionaires, oligarchs, and other captains 9f industry.
- david-gpu 2y ago> Agreements like Montreal will never happen again They happen all the time. Just look at how the European Union operates on a day-to-day basis. This and the Montreal Protocol wasn't achieved with a self-defeating attitude, though.
- maeil 2y ago> This and the Montreal Protocol wasn't achieved with a self-defeating attitude, though. What's clear is that the attitudes of those of us in favour of such measures has only achieved the opposite is the last decade, as the user you're replying to has rightfully pointed out. Optimism has gotten us nowhere.
- antisthenes 2y agoMontreal Protocol is Global. EU Agreements are EU-Only, and Europe is only a small part of the World, comparatively, and almost irrelevant manufacturing wise, compared to China/India/SE Asia/USA combined. If we're talking about Global climate or pollution impact, the EU alone agreeing won't cut it.
- maeil 2y agoThey're not self-crippling, that's the whole point of internalizing negative externalities.
- XorNot 2y ago...and then the price is added to the price of tyres. Like, where do you think the money is going to go? People can't easily substitute their car use, and there's nothing out there replacing rubber that's road legal, so all you're doing is just adding a tax to car use. You could do this just as easily with gas taxes, registration fees or any other system.
- Spooky23 2y agoWell the political party going into power believes they have a mandate to go back in time to when things were great. Right now that means protective tariffs are a fashionable “something” to do.
- CalRobert 2y agoIs taxing car use bad?
- XorNot 2y agoAsk your poorer constituents. I work from home and get paid an enormous salary. I literally do not care. But (1) in turn I make decisions which are purely convenience based because of that disposable income and (2) I'm just one vote. The message you'll be selling to everyone else is: "hey, that multi-thousand dollar vehicle you use for getting to work because there's no public transport and your job requires you on-site? Pay more money to have it." Or did the US not just have an entire election apparently determined by the price of eggs and the cost of living?