Econ101 says No.
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why? econ101 tells pigovian taxes are good. you mean no income tax is bad?
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No but I would replace it with a progressive VAT and a Georgist land value tax. The progressive vat would be taxing things rich people buy at higher rates than poor people.
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I'd love this, but my gut reaction is that it'd be very easy to manipulate if it were based on the price of the good sold, and would be difficult to maintain if it was based on human input.
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Replace? No. Add on top? Yes.
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Don't think you can get enough money from clearly damaging things without loosening the meaning of "clearly damaging" far enough to end up with Georgism (clearly damaging to keep all that space to yourself.)
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Yes indeed, which would be wonderful
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Taxation is theft. Always.
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Sugar should be taxes like alcohol.
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Vice taxes are a well known method for shifting the tax burden from the wealthy to the poor. Not enough money in "vice" industries to replace income taxes. As for an environmental tax, I'd support internalizing externalities, but it creates flight incentives unless global.
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