Submitted by chrisdh79 t3_z9o3zu in Futurology
Foxboy73 t1_iyi3x8b wrote
Reply to comment by Panda_Mon in ‘Cleaner Air Is Coming’ as London Expands Vehicle Pollution Fee to Entire Metro Area by chrisdh79
Guess you haven’t thought of the fact that they’ll just pass this on to the customer anyways. You literally cannot force companies to pay their share in taxes since it all comes from their customers anyways. It all comes back to the consumer.
And before anyone says that they can just make it illegal think of it this way. If there was no customer than there wouldn’t be any money for taxes. Nobody is getting taxed unless they actually sell something, which requires a consumer. Also nothing is stopping a company from raising prices to counter taxes, unless you want to regulate prices but that hurts everybody.
HarryHacker42 t1_iyiyk9h wrote
If you make companies pay more taxes/fines for selling high polluting cars, they sell less cars. This has already been proven with US CAFE regulations. The companies will even make EVs or ultra-high-efficiency gas cars just to be able to sell luxury inefficient cars also. So the taxing does work to change company behavior.
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