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> Someone with money gets to consume more than someone without. This isn't odd. Yes, but taxes and regulations are meant to exert a control how much more you c
by bnegreve 12y ago
> Someone with money gets to consume more than someone without. This isn't odd.
Yes, but taxes and regulations are meant to exert a control how much more you can consume as a rich person.
Now, taxes are fine in many cases, but not always. For example, you probably wouldn't want to live in a country where you can pay for a (taxed) killing service. Hopefully, we agree that this would be "odd".
The problem here is precisely to decide whether it is odd or not to let people emit as much as CO2 as they want (provided that they pay for the tax). Or if we should put a hard limit on it (i.e. a regulation).
I personally think it is indeed a bit odd.
- zo1 12y ago>"Yes, but taxes and regulations are meant to exert a control how much more you can consume as a rich person." A sad world we live in when people view taxes as a means to "control" the amount of consumption by the rich.
- bnegreve 12y agoTaxes such as the ones on CO2 emissions are made to influence people's behaviour. That's why I think strict regulations are sometime better than taxes because they don't really influence people, or at least not in a sneaky way like taxes do.