One of the people who reads these essays and comments on them (Davy Stephenson)wrote a phrase which set me thinking. He wrote about “false taxations” in the context of carbon taxes. It is an interesting concept because it implies that some taxes are false in the sense that they are immoral or wrong, or that they (and this would be the context actually used) purport to stop a harmful thing by penalising the activity that creates that harm. In the context of carbon tax being false the argument is that as the emission of carbon is not (in the mind of this reader) a harmful activity a tax on it is false. (more…)
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