Re:Tax Policy Gave Us White Claw
by kevin_thibedeau on Friday September 06, 2019 @05:23PM
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We're going to start seeing that with taxes on EVs to make up for lost fuel tax revenue.
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But that's not a complete engagement with the argument, right? Fuel taxes pay for more than just the carbon and pollution externalities of driving, but also of the cost of maintaining safe roads.
You can obviously disagree with the argument, but it's not incoherent and is in keeping with the underlying notion of a Pigovian tax.