Ditto for the concept of "taxing windfall profits".
It just incentivises the government to create crises for profit.
Every time government revenues become reliant on taxing the awful, there's a temptation to make more awfulness or prolong its use.
Tobacco & fossil fuel know how to co-opt regulators into becoming part of the problem.
Wave money in front of money junkies who believe they can be wasteful because "there's always more where that came from" ie taxpayers
Nicole Parsons
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2026-08-26 21:37:17 UTC
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