Do “sin taxes” work?

Re:Do “sin taxes” work? by WalterBright on Sunday August 12, 2018 @07:32PM (#17747076)

Pollution should be taxed as well.

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Re:Do “sin taxes” work? by eeZah7Ux on Monday August 13, 2018 @08:27AM (#17749513)

Taxing pollution would be very easy to implement by taxing oil and coal extraction and would help realign ecology and economy but it's not going to happen in the current political climate.

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Re:Do “sin taxes” work? by WalterBright on Monday August 13, 2018 @05:27PM (#17753761)

The way to make it palatable is to couple it with equivalent tax cuts, to make it revenue neutral.

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