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Originally Posted by SHOFEAR
I'm at least honest and consistent about it.
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And so am I, in my opinion...
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Originally Posted by 240glt
People's vehicle choices are a pretty easy target for drive-by disapproval and condemnation (pun intended) when there are far more factors involved in determining one's environmental footprint.
Let's talk about significantly jacking up the price on airline flights and put massive tariffs on imported foods and goods and see what the reactions would be here.
As always somewhere in the middle between the righteousness and dismissiveness is where the actual conversation lies.
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Totally agree, but you should know that I'm all for jacking up the price of flights and imported goods. I'm on record saying that already here (multiple times).
To make up for the fact that lots of our fruits and veggies are imported in winter, healthy foods could easily get discounted.
A good taxation policy for foods would look like:
Healthy + grown locally = would move to being cheaper
Unhealthy + grown locally = approximately no changes
Healthy + grown far away = approximately no changes
Unhealthy + grown far away = would move to being pricier
Basically, we'd put a price on pollution, but at the same time we'd reward healthy choices (with healthcare being public, that's just a no brainer...), all while everyone's still perfectly free to do what they want - maybe even more free than we are right now.
(Actually, in my ideal pollution-pricing environment, we'd absolutely gain new freedoms. People could do various things that are currently illegal right now.)