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Old 12-15-2005, 18:59 PM   #258 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by dalem
So you're going to tax them for polluting because pollution is Bad. You gonna give them a tax break for producing the things we use to enrich our lives?

-dale
That's not an equivalent analogy. Profit is the reward to produce things that are useful. If what companies produced wasn't valuable, people wouldn't buy it. But when they pollute the environment, we all have to pay. And not just us, but our children and their children, etc.
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