Any time you tax something, you disincentiveize it. I think the point is to tax things that society considers negative: carbon, alcohol, nicotine, potentially

Any time you tax something, you disincentiveize it. I think the point is to tax things that society considers negative: carbon, alcohol, nicotine, potentially marijuana. Because you can't raise enough from those, we may also tax land. But let's not tax the positives, like income/production.