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Originally posted by Spanky
In addition, a lot of other products produce pollution and have no tax on them.
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NO FUCKING WAY. You gotta be shitting me on this.
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Originally posted by Spanky
Sort of but not really. It does not take into account how efficiently the gas is used. Different engines put out a different amount of exhaust per gallon.
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Yes, but the gas tax is not a bad estimator and is a hell of a lot cheaper to administer than having individual pollution-measuring doohickies on everyone's exhaust pipes, and making sure that people actually keep those on there. Having things super-exact is administratively super-expensive.
Transaction costs, bucko. You have to address transaction costs in your bright ideas. This isn't econ class where we get to start out saying "assuming no transaction costs."
