What? Tax is not a punishment. If a company finds that they can poison the environment and release PFAS into a local stream, but that they will be charged $12000 if they’re caught, then all they have learned is that, for the potential price of $12000, they can purchase the right to not have to follow environmental regulation (and they’ll only have to pay it if they’re caught!)
I was originally replying to the person who pointed out that flat fines are worthless. The luxury tax bit is irrelevant to what i was saying.
My reply to you was trying to figure out why you were bringing luxury tax back into it, when the specific thing to which I was replying was about flat fines as a punishment. I still don’t know what the heck you meant by “hardly”
What? Tax is not a punishment. If a company finds that they can poison the environment and release PFAS into a local stream, but that they will be charged $12000 if they’re caught, then all they have learned is that, for the potential price of $12000, they can purchase the right to not have to follow environmental regulation (and they’ll only have to pay it if they’re caught!)
Are you replying to the wrong person? I specifically pointed out that they were thinking about something else.
I was originally replying to the person who pointed out that flat fines are worthless. The luxury tax bit is irrelevant to what i was saying. My reply to you was trying to figure out why you were bringing luxury tax back into it, when the specific thing to which I was replying was about flat fines as a punishment. I still don’t know what the heck you meant by “hardly”
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