Direct Taxation Preference
Commenters advocate for directly taxing undesirable activities, luxuries, or consumption instead of regulations, surcharges, or other interventions, emphasizing taxes' role in discouraging behaviors and shaping incentives.
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They could tax them to avoid that.
Just increase tax a bit more to make up for it :)
If you want less of something, tax it.
It would make more sense to just tax them..
Maybe consider that it's how taxes are actually used instead of just higher taxes?
I don't understand this logic, what would the higher tax accomplish?
it's possible to tax luxury stuff more, etc.
How is it so ingenious? It's very common to tax the things you don't want your citizens to use much of. Like taxing alcohol or drinks with sugar, etc.
You should just tax it instead.
This is a pretty bizarre approach; surely it would make more sense just to _tax_ them? This is for practical purposes a targeted tax anyway.