re: #517 Obdicut

You can’t talk about taxes without talking about revenues. Otherwise, you’re talking about penalties - not taxes.

As for using taxes to increase efficiency and decrease usage, technologies can do so without any government involvement.

CRT begets plasma begets LCD which begets LED - each of which is a technological leap that doesn’t involve gov’t taxes or penalties, and you not only get better and larger tvs, but more efficient ones at that.

Incandescent begets CFL which begets LED which begets OLED. Each is a more efficient light source.

Power production isn’t a true market based problem because government has severely distorted the markets, and the solution would be to loosen the regulatory requirements to build new nuke power plants and distribution lines so that the power from alt-energy sources can come to the market.